TY  - GEN
AU  - Baker,Eleanor N.
TI  - Eleanor N. Baker journal,
KW  - Baker, Michael,
KW  - Northern Light (Bark)
KW  - Ship's papers
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Voyages and travels
KW  - Whaling
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - New Bedford
KW  - Pacific Ocean
KW  - Fiji
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - New Zealand
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Journal of the bark Northern Light kept chiefly by Eleanor N. Baker while accompanying her husband, Captain Michael Baker, and their son on a whaling voyage, probably out of New Bedford, Mass., to the southwestern Pacific Ocean, primarily New Zealand and Fiji.  Entries document the bark's latitude and longitude, weather, sighting and taking of whales, number of barrels of whale and sperm oil processed, visiting and sighting of ports and islands, names of ships and captains encountered, and life aboard ship
ER  -