Sept. 7, 1858: Now I am in the place that is to be my home possibly for 3 or 4 years; but I can not make it appear to me so yet it seems so strange, so many Men and not one Woman besides myself; the little Cabin that is to be all my own is quite pretty; as well as I can wish, or expect on board of a Ship. I have a rose geranium to pet, that Mrs. Fish has been kind enough to send me, and I see there is a kitten on board. I think it will not be as pleasant as it is today; the motion of the Ship I shall be a long time getting used to...I shall be lonely, though not alone, for a have a kind Husband wiht me.

- Eliza Azelia Williams -

Mrs. Williams grew weary of taking care of her husband's affairs while he was gone for long periods of time on his whaling ship. So... she determined to go with him, even though she was five months pregnant. Her first voyage last 38 months. She delivered her first two children during that time. Her second trip was 18 months long. Trips after that were limited to one year. She had a third child on one of those voyages, somewhere in the Japan Sea.

Her journal is included in One Whaling Family, edited by Harold Williams and published in 1964 by Houghton, Mifflin and Co.