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Title: Barnstable and Yarmouth, sea captains and ship owners
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Sprague, Frank William, b. 1842 Sprague, Leavitt, 1799-1875
Subjects: Sprague, Caleb, 1811-1893 Shipping -- Massachusetts Barnstable Shipping -- Massachusetts Yarmouth Voyages to the Pacific coast Barnstable (Mass.) -- Biography Yarmouth (Mass.) -- Biography
Publisher: (Boston, Mass.) : Privately printed
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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esk a painting of this ship entering the Texel 1845, by J. Spin of Amsterdam. In 1847, the North Bend carried troops to reinforce General Scott, in the Mexican War.She remained at Vera Cruz until a sufficient force was collectedto march toward the City of Mexico. General Scott will have two thousand ready to leave Vera Cruz on the 10th of July (1847). I visited the camp often and there is no mistake about the officers from the southern to the northern points of the United States, and the privates also, butwhat they are determined not to let the villainous Mexicans gain a victory, as long as there is a drop of Yankee blood flowing in their veins. What few prisoners they have taken, say they are desperadoes, and almost, you might say, barbarians. Correctaccounts about some of those who have fallen into their hands are shocking. * He also made a voyage to St. Petersburg, via Elsinore, in this ship. Some other extracts from Captain Spragues letters are interesting : * Letter from Captain Sprague.
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Image: Ship "North Bend" of Boston, Captain Caleb Sprague. Spargue was captain 1843-7. SEA CAPTAINS AND SHIP OWNERS I7 Bordeaux, France. Aug. 8, 1844. Dunkirk and Bordeaux are fine places, and contain many curiosities to us. We have had more invitations to dine than we have wished, as the dinners in this country are very lengthy,say from three to four hours before you rise from the table, and then not dry. Today we (his wife and himself) have been to the Bordeaux Mechanical Exposition, or Fair, and it is splendid.There are nine American vessels here, and five of the Captains have their wives. From a letter dated Cork, Nov. 28, 1847 (the year of the famine), I take the following : This country is in a very bad state. Murders are committed upon the landholders almost daily by the tenants, and the poor are suffering very badly for the want of food and clothing and no person can really imagine the amount of suffering, until they have been here and seen for themselves. We Americans know but little about poverty. The following is from one of his letters dated Hull, England,Feb. 3, 1846

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