Snow, George Henry I Snow I. The contributor recounts some of his experiences as "a youngster" aboard the whaler Japan in "the Eastern seas." The Crew List of the Japan, Public Record Office, London, lists George Henry Snow as apprentice on a voyage to the southern whale fisheries, between June 25, 1838, and Aug. 11, 1841. Snow, born in Wiltshire, was fourteen at the date of signing on. His previous ship had been the London Packet.

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971