Journal Post

December 20th The last journal entry is by Bayard Taylor... We had a tedious night, of alternate calms and snow-squalls, and I slept very little, out of anxiety lest a stiff nor'wester should spring up and blow us out to sea again. [...]

Bayard Taylor's Description of the Sailing The transition to a winter climate was like a cold-plunge bath. The thermometer sank to 25° and water froze on deck. At noon a pilot-boat hove in sight, running down towards us. The ship was put about, in [...]

Bayard Taylor's Description of the Sailing It blew hard during the night, and there was a very heavy sea in the stream, but on soundings the water was smoother. We ran the whole night with no other sail than close-reefed fore and main topsails, [...]

Bayard Taylor's Description of the Sailing On Saturday morning, the 17th, a breeze sprang up from the south-east. Gradually increasing, it hauled to the northward and westward, and by noon we were dashing on our course at the rate of ten knots. The sky [...]

Bayard Taylor's Description of the Sailing Conditions The Middle Kingdom by S. Wells Williams Journal of a Residence of Two Years and a Half in Great Britain by Jehangir Nowrojee and Hirjeebhoy Merwanjee An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa by George Psalmanazar We [...]

November 27th Thus far a rainy day. Until a few minutes ago we have been going ten knots, now the wind is rather lighter, but we hope we have got the N.E. trade. On the evening of the 24th we again crossed [...]

Bayard Taylor's Description of the Sailing Conditions For three days after leaving St. Helena we had calm, sluggish weather, but on the 17th took the trade-wind again, and for five days thereafter averaged 200 miles a day. The wind was steady, dead astern, and [...]

The Middle Kingdom by S. Wells Williams November 23rd We are within a day’s sail of the Equator. The weather is charming, a delightful cool breeze all the time; as yet have not suffered in the least from heat and if we [...]

St. Helena Bayard Taylor's Description of St. Helena Bayard Taylor's Description of The Ascent Bayard Taylor's Description of The Briars Bayard Taylor's Description of Longwood Bayard Taylor's Description of The Tomb The Great Exhibition of 1853 The coast on this side rises into two [...]

The Crimean War Dr. Peter Parker's Shipwreck The Middle Kingdom by S. Wells Williams Final Memorials of Charles Lamb by Thomas Noon Talfourd Who Was Charles Lamb? Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was an English essayist, poet and author, sometimes referred to as “the most lovable [...]