The English whaling ship "Tuscan" reached Caroline island in 1835, and the geography and wildlife of the island were recorded by the ship's surgeon, the biologist Frederick Debell Bennett, in his "Narrative of a Whaling Voyage Round the Globe From the Year 18331836". Bennett knew that the island was seldom visited, "although it is usually 'sighted' by South-Seamen, when on their way from the Society Islands to the North Pacific". He noted that about seven years before the arrival of the "Tuscan", a Captain Stavers had landed on the island and left behind some pigs, of which no trace remained.