Sunday, September 19, 2010

Girl on a Whaleship

In October, 1868, Laura Jernegan, a 6 year old girl from Edgartown, Massachusetts set out on a three year whaling voyage with her father, mother, brother and the ship's crew to the whaling grounds of the Pacific Ocean. You can now read the journal she kept on her voyage.

(Thanks Victor)

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