the joseph -- the edward kerry has been quite lucky and they now have killed 35 wales and the captain says set sail for nantucket. you can imagine these are men who are homeward bound, really ready to go home. but the first thing they do when they know they're on their way home is they break apart the trial works. they throw it overboard. they don't want the captain to take any more whales. they want to be sure they're on their way home. so on their way home this time they're seasoned navigators, they go around the horn. they arrive in nantucket in 1858. and they off-load all these parts of oil, it will go to an oil refinery for processing. finally it is time to pay out or tell the men what they have earned on the voyage. a captain, certainly a ship owner could become a lengthy man after one voyage. someone like joseph, the steer of the vote, will receive one 100th of the proceeds of the voyage. and a lowly semen would receive one 168 of the proceeds. joseph has kept such a wonderful journal. told so many wonderful stories and it's quite exciting to read. i will tell you about one of

. >> logs ivan e3, ship edward kerry. carey wynne slow, master. boat stir, we innkeeper. 1855. at 9 am, the cry of man overboard was throughout the ship. the wind blowing heavy, being in my birth at the time, hearing the noise, well on deck just as it started the ball was going down. i jumped into her, with a few others, and after pulling for sometime or's, succeeded in reaching him, as he was about to give up. he had a bucket under him, which fortunately, happen to go over at the same time. >> ahab and starbucks in the cabin. starbucks, i will not have this hoisted. >> will the owners say sir. let the at them stand up. what cares they have. owners. owners, there are not always great. if the owners were my conscience, but look the only real owner of anything is its commander. my conscience, isn't the ships keel. on deck. >> log three 68, ships susan. reuben russell, master innkeeper. december 21st, 1845, at 6 pm, the ship montana russell, four months out, got letters from the owners. pressing me to say at five years. all moonshine, we are four years now, and everything worn out

he was a 21-year-old nan tulkt boy hired to go out on the edward kerry.is job will be boat steerer and harpooner. so that means that when they lower the whale boats from the whale ship, when they're actually pursuing a whale, joseph will be in the bow of the ship. so he will first be using an ore to help row toward the whale. when they approach the whale, he's also be the person who is going to harpoon the whale. joseph joins the rest of the crew, and these are men from really all over. they're men from fall river, buffalo, boston, nantucket, of course, because the captains and the mates are most likely from nantucket. there's also a man from the azores. as the edward kerry sales all over the world, they'll pick up other sailors along the way. that will add to the diversity of the crew. diverse whaling crews created the first meritocracy in the colonies. any young man who could prove his worth could climb up a ladder and eventually achieve success on a whaling voyage. maybe become a mate, maybe even become a captain. pictured here is boston, the first afr