Part 3: The Journey Begins
Journal Entry 3: 1849
You are half way into your trip. Create a third journal entry, and answer the following questions: Where are you? What landmarks have you seen? What are the conditions like on your trail or steam ship? How long have you spent traveling? Has the journey been a pleasant one, or have unexpected factors like disease and attacks made your life interesting? You will have to come up with a date. Think about the route your took. If you are half way to California, how much time might have passed?
To answer these questions, go back to your map, and to the resources you looked at during your second journal entry. Think about By the Great Horn Spoon. Descriptions were given of specific places, what they saw, and how it might look.
Use the websites below to find specific historical information relevant to your route. You will need to add specific names of places you see and what it might have been like to see these things for the first time. Remember, you are from the city and probably have never left Boston in your life time.
If you stop in Rio De Janeiro or Panama, know that it was a hot tropical place. You would have seen and tasted tropical fruits like bananas, pineapples and guavas for the very first time. The ports of these cities would have been very crowded with other 49ers rushing out to San Francisco.
Sea Route - Cape Horn
A number of potential sailing routes may be followed around the tip of South America. The Strait of Magellan, between the mainland and Tierra del Fuego, is a major — although narrow — passage, which was in use for trade well before the Horn was discovered. The Beagle Channel (named for the ship of Charles Darwin's expedition), between Tierra del Fuego and Isla Navarino, offers a potential, though difficult route. Other passages may be taken around the Wollaston and Hermite Islands to the north of Cape Horn.
Cape Horn Cape Horn is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuegoarchipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island. Cape Horn marks the northern boundary of the Drake Passage. The waters around the Cape are particularly hazardous, owing to strong winds, large waves, strong currents and icebergs; these dangers have made it notorious as a sailors' graveyard.
*Map taken from http://oregontrail101.com/sites.html
You are half way into your trip. Create a third journal entry, and answer the following questions: Where are you? What landmarks have you seen? What are the conditions like on your trail or steam ship? How long have you spent traveling? Has the journey been a pleasant one, or have unexpected factors like disease and attacks made your life interesting? You will have to come up with a date. Think about the route your took. If you are half way to California, how much time might have passed?
To answer these questions, go back to your map, and to the resources you looked at during your second journal entry. Think about By the Great Horn Spoon. Descriptions were given of specific places, what they saw, and how it might look.
Use the websites below to find specific historical information relevant to your route. You will need to add specific names of places you see and what it might have been like to see these things for the first time. Remember, you are from the city and probably have never left Boston in your life time.
- If you picked the by LAND ROUTE, this site will help Sites Along The Way
- If you picked the by SEA ROUTE , look at this map.* This map gives sample dates for a voyage that began on October 6th. Where might you be half way through your journey? From what we have studied in class, write your journal entry based on that information.
If you stop in Rio De Janeiro or Panama, know that it was a hot tropical place. You would have seen and tasted tropical fruits like bananas, pineapples and guavas for the very first time. The ports of these cities would have been very crowded with other 49ers rushing out to San Francisco.
Sea Route - Cape Horn
A number of potential sailing routes may be followed around the tip of South America. The Strait of Magellan, between the mainland and Tierra del Fuego, is a major — although narrow — passage, which was in use for trade well before the Horn was discovered. The Beagle Channel (named for the ship of Charles Darwin's expedition), between Tierra del Fuego and Isla Navarino, offers a potential, though difficult route. Other passages may be taken around the Wollaston and Hermite Islands to the north of Cape Horn.
Cape Horn Cape Horn is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuegoarchipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island. Cape Horn marks the northern boundary of the Drake Passage. The waters around the Cape are particularly hazardous, owing to strong winds, large waves, strong currents and icebergs; these dangers have made it notorious as a sailors' graveyard.
*Map taken from http://oregontrail101.com/sites.html