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Thread #48965 Message #3929401
Posted By: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
06-Jun-18 - 05:32 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Salt Beef (Swallows and Amazons)
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Salt Beef (Swallows and Amazons)
“I enter into the details of good living on board to correct a common impresssion that a whaleman's fare is always poor:
“Salt beef, salt beef, is our relief - Salt beef, and a biscuit hard,”
as an old song wrongly has it.
[Davis, William M., Nimrod of the Sea or, The American Whaleman, (New York: Harper & Bros., 1874, p.131)]
[Nantucket Historical Association summary note: Account of voyage; original is Log 354. Used in preparation of William M. Davis "Nimrod of the Sea or The American Whaleman" (Harper 1874)]