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56 days out from New York, Bound for Seattle, Wash.
My dear Roll. Here I am on another long trip. Left New York on Feb 12th with Capt. Bartlett and hope to get to Seattle in another ten or twelve days if we do not run into head winds. This so far has been a very rough stormy trip and since leaving the Panama Canal have not sighted a single ship of any kind and as we have taken the Great Circle route so as to try and get the trade winds, we have been off the coast 900 to 1000 miles and I will be very glad to see good old land once again. I will be also glad for a change in food. We have been living off canned goods ever since we left. We have had a little of every kind of weather but mostly storms and gales of wind since leaving the doldrums. Few days ago and it was first about all the old Morrissey could stand we got pretty well torn up. Seas broke over the entire vessel from stem to stern and we had to throw some of our deck load overboard-drums of oil. Some of the big seas that boarded us stove in our barrels with fresh water and now we are all on rations. Have got to use salt water to wash shave and brush our teeth with. Not very pleasant but have got to make the best of it. This schooner is 100 feet overall and I will back her against anything of her size for rolling. She would take first prize in any contest. I expect to be in Seattle if we get there until May 1st when I start for Alaska Peninsula where I will hunt the big Brown bear. I hope I will have good luck and get what I am after. I have a permit from the Biological Survey in Washington to kill 8 from of each kind. I have a hard rough trip ahead of me but I feel I will make out OK. I will do the best I can and that is all I can do. If all goes well, I will hope to get home some time end of September but on a trip of this kind one never can tell first when he will get back. We are in for another good storm it is making up fast and starting to blow a gale. We are now in the latitude 44 north where we expect bad weather. It is getting so rough all I can do to hang on to my chair and write. Hope you all are well and when I get back am going to try and get up to Mystic for a few days as should like very much to see you. Please give my kindest regards to your dear Mother and all your family. Capt. Bartlett wishes to be remembered to you. He is bound for Siberia. Always your sincere friend Harry Whitney. SEA HISTORY 151 , SUMMER 2015
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