A log book dated Nov. 2, 1847 through July 21, 1851 from the whaling vessel "John Harland" sits at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Mass. AP NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — Maritime ...

Historian Anna Claydon was wading through the Southern Hemisphere's biggest collection of whaling logbooks when she found a little girl's handwriting in the 1850s log of the whaling vessel Nimrod.