pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. On the 2nd of February, 1873, the Pilgrim, a tight little craft of 400 tons burden, lay in lat. 43(deg) 57', S. and long. 165(deg) 19', W. She was a schooner, the property of James W. Weldon, a wealthy Californian ship-owner who had fitted her out at San Francisco, expressly for the whale-fisheries in the southern seas.