Through most of January 1849, Mary Brewster made nearly daily journal entries. However, most of them are very brief. Oftentimes, Mary’s journal entries are reflective of 19th-century whaling ships’ logs entries that typically would have been made by the captain or first officer of the vessels.
Mary Brewster, FRIDAY [Feb.] 2 [1849]: “No change today, hard squalls and harder rain. The dry weather has caused the [deck] house to leak and the heat so intolerable I have had the door open, it has rained in and everything is wet and dreary within and out. The sea is rough and a bad swell from North, wind not free the ship close-hauled, well some wind is better than a calm.”
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Mary Lawrence did not make any journal entries between January 30-February 4, 1860.
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