Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 21:05:03 -0800



This week, who knows why, I picked up a copy of Moby Dick in the 
library.  (Good book.  Good worldbuilding, and a less wimpy view of
crew diversity than current Trek. Glad I assigned it to myself in high
school.) ANYway, I turned to the "Notes from a Sub-Sub-Sub Librarian"
and found the chorus from "a Nantucket song" which was obviously an
earlier version of "Bonny Ship the Diamond". (It's on the last page of
"Notes", so it won't be too hard to unearth again.)  But the words,
while scanning the same and having similar sense, were still farther
from our version than Moonwulf's is, IMO.

So, there's some pretty good evidence for an early dating, but the 
words may have had a lot of lost variation.

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