The film that Irving Johnson put together about his trip "wrong way" around the Horn as an ordinary seaman is on YouTube. Although the film is silent, there is a narration by Johnson that makes the footage even more vivid.

As for the Pekin, she is in drydock at this time preparing to be carried to Hamburg which will be her new home port. The song lyrics hew very closely to the story that Capt. Johnson tells in his narration which was recorded many years later..