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...Nicol reaches his highest point in his account of the voyage of a convict ship that transported female convicts to New South Wales. All the sailors took wives from among the convicts on their first day at sea. Nicol fell in love with a modest, unfortunate girl named Sarah Whitelam, who bore him a son before the twelve-months voyage was over. Determining to take her back to England and marry her as soon as her sentence was served, he got a berth on a whaler, found that he could not return to New South Wales. An escaped convict told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forgotten Seamen | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...following men are trying for positions on the freshman tug-of-war team: Carole, Ogilsby, Cowling, Whitelam, Scott, Higginson and Remington, under the direction of Captain Cochrane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/11/1884 | See Source »

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