When I was a boy, New Bedford was not, as it is now, a great manufacturing city, but the best known and largest whaling port in the world. The wharves were then busy places; there vessels were "fitted", as they used to say, and sent out on their long voyages; other vessels returned...
When I was a boy, New Bedford was not, as it is now, a great manufacturing city, but the best known and largest whaling port in the world. The wharves were then busy places; there vessels were "fitted", as they used to say, and sent out on their long voyages; other vessels returned...