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Word: whitelam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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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 »

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