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Updated: July 24, 2025

Whatever theories may be started by sedentary men, certainly no men could have gone through more hard work and exposure for sixteen months in more perfect health, and without ailings and failings, than our ship's crew, let them have lived upon Hygeia's own baking and dressing. Friday, April 15th. Arrived, brig Pilgrim, from the windward.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast

Whatever theories may be started by sedentary men, certainly no men could have gone through more hard work and exposure for sixteen months in more perfect health, and without ailings and failings, than our ship's crew, let them have lived upon Hygeia's own baking and dressing. Friday, April 15th. Arrived, brig Pilgrim, from the windward.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast