Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen

On February 2, 1876, the schooner "Pilgrim" was in latitude 43 57' south, and in longitude 165 19' west of the meridian of Greenwich.

This vessel, of four hundred tons, fitted out at San Francisco for whale-fishing in the southern seas, belonged to James W. Weldon, a rich Californian ship-owner, who had for several years intrusted the command of it to Captain Hull...