Log: July 5, 1890.

The CHARLES W. MORGAN was sailing on her 16^th voyage off the coast of Japan in the Sea of Okhotsk.  The Log entry for this day states, “The first part Calm. Mid part Light breeze from N N E  latter good wind from N.E. Ship on port tack all day. CAPE [HORN] PIGEON* in sight in Mor heading for Vladivostok. Saw plenty fin back & Sulfor Bottoms.**”

*The CAPE HORN PIGEON was a whaler built in South Dartmouth, MA in 1854. In 1890 she was sailing out of San Francisco. She was eventually lost of Hakodate, Japan in 1897.

**The term ‘sulfur bottom’ is used widely by early whalemen do describe blue whales.  Various small organisms and algae can develop on the undersides of blue whales giving their stomachs a yellowish appearance.