Schooner Kandahar, The

DESCRIPTION: The Kandahar's trip starts out happily, but then the vessel springs a small leak and runs into a smallpox epidemic. Despite a threat of quarantine, the ship reaches the Indies, then has a quiet trip back to Nova Scotia
AUTHOR: Sepley Collin
EARLIEST DATE: 1931
KEYWORDS: ship sea disease
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
1896 - Voyage of the Kandahar
FOUND IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Doerflinger-SongsOfTheSailorAndLumberman, pp. 196-198, "The Schooner Kandahar" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #4085
NOTES [8 words]: This song is item dD42 in Laws's Appendix II. - RBW
File: Doe196

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