New York - San Francisci

ship caught fire; Journals of Master, two passengers and a reported named mark Twain, includes Cape Horn passage, fire at sea and longboat voyage of 4000miles; "Longboat to Hawaii, An account of the voyage of the Clipper Ship Hornet of new York bound for San Francisco in 1866, as recorded in the Journals of Captain Josiah a. Mitchell, Master and Henry & Samuel Ferguson, Passengers", edited by A.C. Brown, (Cambridge, USA, 1974);