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Matthew. It looks like it's raining outside. So that's fun. I must have started this before I

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make sense more later.

On December 4, 1872, the captain of the Canadian commercial sailing vessel, Dig Ratia, spotted

another ship in the Atlantic Ocean 640 kilometers off the Azores Islands. The Dig Ratius captain,

David Reed Moorehouse, thought he recognized the ship as the Mary Celeste, a Nova Scotia-built

brigantine. The ship was captain by his friend, Benjamin Briggs. Moorehouse had dined with the Mary

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