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What would you do on a 14,000 mile journey, sailing from San Francisco to New York (via Cape Horn)? Carl Portin, ship's carpenter on the schooner Ellen Austin, made this inlaid tabletop during such a voyage in 1869. This image was posted on June 26, 2013.

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