Next morning the whaleman was off and away, leaving as a token of her visit the white sand all trampled, an empty bottle, half an old newspaper, and the wigwam torn to pieces.
The wind was blowing dead on for the opening in the reef, and the old whaleman came along breasting the swell with her bluff bows, and entered the lagoon.
And yet, though herds of whales were seen by night, not one whaleman in a hundred would venture a lowering for them.
Upon this, I told him that whaling was my own design, and informed him of my intention to sail out of Nantucket, as being the most promising port for an adventurous whaleman to embark from.
And if ever I go where Pliny is, I, a whaleman (more than he was), will make bold to tell him so.
It was now quite plain that he must be some abominable savage or other shipped aboard of a whalemanin the South Seas, and so landed in this Christian country.
I; "every true whaleman sleeps with his harpoon-- but why not?
One whaleman has estimated it at the weight of twenty line-of-battle ships, with all their guns, and stores, and men on board.
They put him down among the sailors, and made a whaleman of him.
The whale bids fair to become as extinct as the dodo, and the whaleman is already as rare as the buffalo.
The ex-whaleman furnished me with this information during a talk we had over his experiences of the previous winter.
To swallow several pieces of walrus hide, and afterwards vomit forth a pair of miniature moccasins, would seem a trick beyond the powers of the untutored savage, but the whaleman often saw it accomplished.
I; "every truewhaleman sleeps with his harpoon--but why not?
They "fought shy" at first; but the old whaleman knew a way of overcoming their shyness.
The old whaleman knew that under that dark epidermis over which, for two days, they had been recklessly treading, there were many valuable substances that might be made available to their use and comfort, on board the Catamaran.
If not, the old whaleman knew how to attract them within easy reach of that formidable weapon.
Then, if the whaleman be active and daring, a few well-directed strokes may be got in which will promptly settle the business out of hand.
Poor Goliath was indeed to be pitied, for his well-known luck and capacity as a whaleman seemed on this occasion to have quite deserted him.
The bomb-lance and gun are all very well; but the harpoon is the real weapon on which the whaleman must depend.
It was at this moment that I came as close to death as ever whaleman experienced.
We had run into the biggest herd of sperms that the oldest whaleman on the Scarboro had ever seen.
Your true whaleman glories in keeping his harpoon unspotted by blood of aught but Cachalot.
However quiet by nature, a thorough-bred whaleman betrays no little excitement in sight of his game.
A description would present no points of marked interest to the general reader, and what whaleman needs a description of Talcahuana?
Captain Upton, his keen admiration of his brother whaleman getting the better of his vexation.
Frewen, the missing officer, was as good a whaleman as ever drove an iron or gripped the haft of a steer-oar, and his half-caste boatsteerer Randall Cheyne was the best on the ship.
I have been told that this description of a whaleman has given offence to the whale-trading people of Nantucket, New Bedford, and the Vineyard.
Probably a whaleman from Bristol, Rhode Island, bound out.
The extended voyages of the American whaleman were made in heavy, bluff-bowed and “tubby” crafts that were designed with fine contempt for speed, comfort or appearance.
Each prospectivewhaleman was promised a “lay” of the ship’s catch.
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