One Year in a Blubber Hunter

DESCRIPTION: A landsman signs, sails round the world, and then is not paid. The cosmopolitan crew were white and black. Some were on the lam. They had to row and pull the ship to save it from wrecking.
AUTHOR: Benjamin Franklin Gallup (source: Frank-JollySailorsBold)
EARLIEST DATE: 1859 (source: Frank-JollySailorsBold)
KEYWORDS: travel commerce sea ship ordeal boss sailor whaler Black(s) foreigner
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Frank-JollySailorsBold 145, "One Year in a Blubber Hunter" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #31398
File: FJSB145

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