{"date":"December 30","id":"12-30","intro":["Dana’s description of the picturesque, pre-gold-rush California is unique. While he was on the Pacific coast he met a British sailor who was elaborately tattooed and of an unforgetable appearance and personality."],"minutes":21,"readings":[{"author":"Richard Henry Dana, Jr.","end":86,"start":77,"volume":23,"work":"Two Years Before the Mast"}],"slug":"december-30","status":"proofread","title":"Dana Meets a Tattooed Sailor","url":"/harvard-classics/december-30/","words":4284}