p. 17, after a day of shoveling coal he and his new English friend cleaned up and went to the opera to see “Carmen.”
1899- American Schooner Voyage from San Francisco to Europe and Round the Horn aboard Royalshire
Lubbock was a fairly well-educated “English Public School” man who in 1899 had just arrived in San Francisco after a stint of work in the Klondike. He wanted to get home and to experience life before the mast.