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OP I wondered how ;much the editors had prettied up the prose of a simple seaman. I found a
paragraph about him by Nantucket Historical Assn, with a picture of him very well dressed
and looking as though his prose needed no prettying. The paragraph says something I think
is very much in error. It says Owen Chase made a serious bluncer in plan to sail east to
South American coast, instead of Tahiti, which it says was much closer.
A look at the map shows that Tahiti was almost the same distance;, and in his narrative
Chase discusses the necessity of finding favorable winds, which meant sailing south, then east.
http://www.pbs.org/odyssey/class/essex_photo_05.html
Dear tsuwm - nice piece of detective work on "enditalic"
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted cambouse wwh 12/28/02 06:21 PM Re: cambouse Jackie 12/28/02 09:35 PM Re: cambouse tsuwm 12/28/02 10:10 PM Re: cambouse wwh 12/28/02 10:45 PM Re: spissy WhitmanO'Neill 12/29/02 05:30 AM Re: spissy tsuwm 12/29/02 02:11 PM Re: spissy WhitmanO'Neill 12/29/02 02:34 PM Re: Owen Chase wwh 12/29/02 02:46 PM Re: spissy tsuwm 12/29/02 03:21 PM Re: cambouse tsuwm 12/29/02 02:26 PM
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