Ellen E. Frewer & Jules Verne 
Dick Sands, the Boy Captain 

pub One.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. On the 2nd of February, 1873, the Pilgrim, a tight little craft of 400 tons burden, lay in lat. 43(deg) 57′, S. and long. 165(deg) 19′, W. She was a schooner, the property of James W. Weldon, a wealthy Californian ship-owner who had fitted her out at San Francisco, expressly for the whale-fisheries in the southern seas.