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19th Century

A Bear’s Diary – Part 30

14th July 2019 Tachybaptus 0

September 3rd, 1811. I have been too much occupied to keep up my diary for several months. We have all been toiling on the improvement of the Bear Inn, which had fallen into some disrepair [more…]

19th Century

A Bear’s Diary – Part 29

7th July 2019 Tachybaptus 0

June 9th, 1811. At sea once more, we discovered that two of our crew had deserted, preferring the fleshpots of New York to their homeland and what will certainly be a more than generous reward [more…]

19th Century

A Bear’s Diary – Part 28

30th June 2019 Tachybaptus 0

June 3rd, 1811. The city of New York lies in a broad river estuary whose wooded slopes give no hint of what will appear around the corner. The river is divided into several channels, forming [more…]

19th Century

A Bear’s Diary – Part 27

23rd June 2019 Tachybaptus 0

April 24th, 1811. Our wanderings have brought us to Trinidad, the largest and almost the easternmost of the chain of islands which dot the edge of the Caribbean Sea. Skirting the western edge of the [more…]

19th Century

A Bear’s Diary – Part 26

16th June 2019 Tachybaptus 0

February 22nd, 1811. Late last night, as we were heading north-west in a moderate wind, a tremendous grinding crash threw the whole ship askew, and we found ourselves drifting with the sails flapping dangerously, threatening [more…]

19th Century

A Bear’s Diary – Part 25

9th June 2019 Tachybaptus 0

December 25th, 1810. We celebrate our first Christmas at sea – or at least, the English humans and bears of our party do, for the Russian crew prefer to wait until their laggard calendar produces [more…]

19th Century

A Bear’s Diary – Part 24

2nd June 2019 Tachybaptus 0

December 1st, 1810. We have crossed the Equator again, in the opposite direction. Our polar bears Boris and Beaivi must be the first of their kind to have ventured into the Southern Hemisphere, if only [more…]

19th Century

A Bear’s Diary – Part 23

26th May 2019 Tachybaptus 0

November 15th, 1810. We have just crossed the Equator. Only one sailor on board, Misha, has been in the southern hemisphere before. He told us that it is customary for those who ‘cross the line’ [more…]

19th Century

A Bear’s Diary – Part 22

19th May 2019 Tachybaptus 0

October 12th, 1810 (September 30th O.S.). We sail on, occupied by many small repairs necessary after the storm. Damaged blocks have to be replaced, and lashings that have worked loose need remaking. Yet all in [more…]

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