{"id":365,"date":"2011-01-07T01:14:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T01:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2011-01-07T01:16:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T01:16:44","slug":"richard-h-dana-and-two-years-before-the-mast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Richard H. Dana and “Two Years Before the Mast”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>For landing and taking off hides, San Diego is decidedly the best place in California.\u00c2\u00a0 The harbour is small and land-locked; there is no surf; the vessels lie within a cable\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s length of the beach, and the beach itself is smooth, hard sand, without rocks or stones.\u00c2\u00a0 For these reasons, it is used by all the vessels in the trade, as a depot.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201c<\/em>Richard Henry Dana (1835)<\/p>\n

Two Years Before the Mast<\/em> by Richard Henry Dana Jr. is an American literary classic.\u00c2\u00a0 The thrilling narrative of a voyage from Boston to the California coast in the 1830s was Dana\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s personal memoir of his time at sea\u00e2\u20ac\u201dan account which prominently featured early San Diego.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The story of <\/strong>Richard H. Dana and San Diego<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n