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Logbook of the Gazelle (Ship) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Daniel F. Worth, kept by Frederick H. Lawrence, on voyage 25 August 1862 - 20 April 1866

Journal of a whaling voyage into the Indian Ocean The captain's wife was aboard ship. There is a description of keeping butter in a cask filled with sea water to preserve it but instead it made it nearly inedible. There were a number of illnesses and the ship encountered rough seas and lost some of the oil. While at sea the crew heard of Abraham Lincoln's assassination.

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