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her affairs; and during that time she made twelve voyages and 

 earned a net profit of $652,000. 



On her first voyage under Bourne's management, the Lagoda 

 sailed on October 9, 1841, for New Holland and the Indian 

 Ocean, and returned, after the shortest of all her whaling 

 voyages — one year, eleven months, and six days — with 600 

 barrels of sperm oil, 2,100 barrels of whale oil, and 17,000 pounds 

 of whalebone. To outfit the Lagoda the owners had spent 

 $28,919.45. They received, when the accounts of the voyage 

 were settled, $37,498.09. She had earned in her absence of less 

 than two years a profit of 29.6 per cent. 



On November 8, 1843, she sailed for the Northwest Coast. 

 When on May 26, 1846, she again returned to New Bedford, 

 after an absence of two years, six months, and eighteen days, 

 she brought a cargo that yielded the owners $30,114.75. Since 

 they had spent $13,653.23 on her outfit, they got from the 

 voyage a profit of 120.57 per cent. 



On August 25, 1846, she sailed for the Pacific Ocean and the 

 Northwest Coast, and when she returned to New Bedford on 

 June 13, 1849, after an absence of two years, nine months, and 

 eighteen days, she had a cargo that brought for the owners 

 $29,092.24, or a profit of 66.96 per cent, above their expenditure 

 of $17,424.95 for the outfit. 



The further history of the Lagoda carries us into another dis- 

 tinct period in the history of whaling, for, after lying idle 

 during the year when the scramble to the California gold-fields 

 most seriously interfered with the industry, she continued 

 whaling until June, 1886, under Bourne's management. Of 

 her twelve voyages only two — the tenth and the twelfth — were 

 unsuccessful. During those two voyages she lost $24,714.02, 

 but the sum of money she earned during the other ten voyages 

 was $676,673.01. 



A lucky ship? Yes, without a doubt. And a lucky owner, 

 Jonathan Bourne. Still, luck doesn't come to the idle, the 

 heedless, or the stupid. 



