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1. 31636 - Log, Ship's

   1850 Ship's log from the Brig "Tigris" Captain Octavius Howe from Beverly to California leaving 22 August 1850 for the gold fields. In the book "The Argonauts of Forty-nine" (pp 99-106) Octavius T. Howe writes about the sailing of the Tigris bound for San Francisco. "...the Tigress, with a cargo invoiced at $17,419, became a vertiable floating department store stocked with everything the heart of man could desire." The voyage was not a suc...

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