Desolation

DESCRIPTION: "I will sing a little rhyme as I have a little time About the meanest ship afloat in all creation... and they fitted her out to go to Desolation." The food is poor and there isn't enough; Americans are treated like dogs; you're lucky if you get paid
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1859 (Journal from the Ocean Rover)
KEYWORDS: ship sailor hardtimes food foreigner
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Huntington-SongsTheWhalemenSang, pp. 7-8, "A Fitting Out" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Pamela A. Miller, _And the Whale Is Ours: Creative Writing of American Whalemen_, David R. Godine/Kendall Whaling Museum, 1979, pp. 137-138, "(no title)" (1 text)
Roud #2010
File: AWIO137

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