She drifted about unmanageable, now into one ship, now into another, and the English whalemen began to pour on board, to help themselves to such plunder as they chose.
After such a week spent together it will easily be understood that the New London whalemen did not feel strangers on board one of Sir Edward's vessels when they found her "ready for occupation" three years and more afterwards.
The whalemen filled them again, and undoubtedly felt less discouraged.
The old-time whalemen were rowed right up to the side of the ironed monster, after it had tired itself out fighting, and the officer in the bow had to churn the lance up and down in the great beast until the point reached a vital spot.
I had heard of ancient, isolated he-elephants being called "rogue;" but I did not know before that whalemen believe that certain old bull whales are just as savage and revengeful as tigers.
It was one of those accidents to which whalemen are always liable, and which no watchfulness can avert.
I confess, that since Jonah, few whalemen have penetrated very far beneath the skin of the adult whale; nevertheless, I have been blessed with an opportunity to dissect him in miniature.
True enough, but then whalemen themselves are poor devils; they have no good blood in their veins.
The ancient whale-cry upon first sighting a whale from the mast-head, still used by whalemen in hunting the famous Gallipagos terrapin.
I have had controversies about it with experienced whalemen afloat, and learned naturalists ashore.
Providing the yarn of the whalemen is true, we now come to the most interesting part of the story.
They were poor and superstitious whalemen and did not dare to disturb it, but they brought home the story.
Still it seems, in some sort, a mystery, even to old whalemen themselves.
A common question with whalemen when they meet, and asked with as much gravity as that of the noble Thane, Macduff, "Stands Scotland where it did?
The general rule, as established among whalemen is, that "marked craft claims the fish so long as he is in the water, dead or alive.
I think, if the statistics of voyages could be collected and compared, we should prove that we are better whalemen than they were; that is to say, that we get much more oil in proportion to the opportunities we meet with.
Truly is it remarked by old whalemen that the most delightful parts of a voyage are "boiling" and arriving home.
It was even so with Nantucket whalemen at the period of which I am writing.
These names, by which they know each other, are in general use among the whalemen and were adopted by every one on board the Corwin.
Whalemen still occasionally fight for their lives against their prey as well.
Yet accidents like these only spurred the whalemen on to greater efforts, not of mere bravado, but of daring skill.
No wonder old whalemen despise the easier and safer methods of steam whaling practised by the Norwegians in Canadian and other waters at the present day.
She just came in as if she knew all the soundings by heart--as probably she did--for these whalemen know every hole and corner in the Pacific.
Probably one of the crew of the whalemen had found it and carried it off with him; no one could say.
Whalemen haunted his dreams, though I doubt if he would willingly have gone on board even a Royal Mail steamer.
Living as these people do at peace with their neighbors, they would not be expected to exhibit the fierce martial courage of many other savages, but bold whalemen and venturous ice-hunters can not be said to lack bravery.
There is no practical reason against using either oars or sails, and in fact the latter would often be of great advantage in silently approaching a whale, as the American whalemen have long ago discovered.
On the days between the great flights there are always a few flocks passing, and some days when there is no flight along shore they are very abundant out at the open water, where the whalemen shoot them in the intervals of whaling.
Herendeen that the natives have been taught to put this in by the whalemen who every year purchase large numbers of boots on the Siberian coast, for use in the Arctic.
In 1883 the land floe was so rough and wide abreast of the village that no practicable path could be made, so all the whalemen with their families moved up to Ime'kpun and encamped in tents as already described (see p.
By a shameless perversion of exaggerated charges, a really competent outfitter managed to ship his embryo whalemen without a cent of the promised advance.
Emboldened by commerce with drift-whales, these Puritan whalemen soon took to boats to chase and kill whales which came close in, but which were not actually stranded.
Year after year the colonial whalemen pushed further and further out into the “deep” as their gigantic quarry retreated before them.
When the dead whale was lying alongside the ship, the whalemen would fasten a hook in the blubber.
The hardy whalemen ran great risks during their long voyages, but, if they were fortunate in killing whales, they made a good deal of money.
We knew that arctic whalemen would soon be along, and pressing their way up towards higher latitudes, an open sea would invite them to secure a profitable season's work.
Indeed, the success or ill success of whalemen in obtaining oil determines essentially the length of voyages.
Besides harpoons, which are the most important instruments upon which whalemen depend for capturing the whale, the harpoon gun and bomb lance are now used for the same purpose.
The Greenland whale, and also the species called the great rorqual, are doubtless included in the name which our whalemen give to the bowhead.
It is when whalemen are beyond our coast, and around the Horn, and their outfits have been put to some service, they find that the winds, storms, and exposures have made sad havoc of their supposed sound and reliable chest of clothing.
Whalemen frequently discover large masses or junks of squid floating about, probably torn in pieces by whales in their search after food.
The author would here express his acknowledgments to whalemen who have readily furnished him with many valuable incidents connected with the details of their employment.
The voyages of all classes of whalemen are much longer and more tedious now than formerly.
There are several varieties included in this species, as we shall hereafter observe, and which are distinguished by whalemen both in regard to some external peculiarity as well as the different localities where they are usually found.
The "killers," in their relish to fight the whale, have been known to attack a dead one whichwhalemen had harpooned, and were towing to the ship.
If whales were abundant, whalemenwould fill a ship carrying three thousand barrels in less than two months.
Some Nantucket whalemenwere indeed enticed to the new English whaling town at Dartmouth, near Halifax, or to the French town of Dunkirk.
But once fast, the whalemen try to pull close alongside the monster.
Two spare boats were fitted for use, and again the whalemen started after their foe.
The Revolution followed, and the whalemen of Nantucket and New Bedford stripped their vessels, sent down yards and all running rigging, stowed the sails, tied their barks and brigs to the deserted wharves and went out of business.
The American boats also carried centerboards, lifting into a framework extending through the center of the craft, but the English whalemenomitted these appendages.
The nature of their calling made the whalemen peculiarly vulnerable to the evils of war.
A big whale, as big as most whalemen ever see, the biggest Noll himself had ever slain.
The result was that a new crew was finally obtained, together with a steady New Englander for second mate, and three good whalemen for harpooners.
It is for this reason that many South Sea whalemen do not come to anchor for eighteen or twenty months on a stretch.
Nowadays, American whalemen in the Pacific never think of carrying spirits as a ration; and aboard of most of them, it is never served out even in times of the greatest hardships.
In this way men are frequently shipped on board whalemen in the South Seas.
Many whalemen have been slain on this coast during the past ten years, and during the few weeks we were at Whalen two natives were killed, also a German trader on the Diomede Islands in Bering Straits.
None of these whalemen ever exceed the age of forty: they look on those who are past that period not to be possessed of all that vigour and agility which so adventurous a business requires.
They often go, like the young men of the Vineyard, to Nantucket, and hire themselves for whalemen or fishermen; and indeed their skill and dexterity in all sea affairs is nothing inferior to that of the whites.
How it came to be discovered I do not know, but it has been known to American whalemen for years.
Then, for the benefit of those of the party, he and the two other ex-whalemen described the cause of the formation of this peculiar substance in the body of the sperm whale.
Christian, Norfolk Island, and I am sure those valorous whalemen would help him to achieve his desire.
It is these gases, which are of an overpowering and atrocious odour, that bring about the cure, so the whalemen say.
All the "shore" whalemen whom the writer has met thoroughly believe in the efficacy of the remedy, and by way of practical proof assert that no man who works at cutting-in and trying out a whale ever suffers from rheumatism.
Our next cruising-ground is known towhalemen as the "Coast of Japan" ground, and has certainly proved in the past the most prolific fishery of sperm whales in the whole world.
For now I was his harpooner, bound to take as many risks as he chose to incur, and anxious also to earn a reputation among the more seasoned whalemen for smartness sufficient to justify my promotion.
But the American whalemen regard these clumsy contrivances as indispensable, so there's an end on't.
With the exception of one peculiar-looking bird, which has received from whalemen the inelegant name of "stinker," none of them attempted to alight upon the body of the dead monster.
From these two rock-bound harbors went thousands of trained seamen to man the privateers and the ships of the Continental navy, slinging their hammocks on the gun-decks beside the whalemen of Nantucket.
As explorers the whalemen rambled into every nook and corner of the Pacific before merchant vessels had found their way thither.
Often whalemen have found themselves cruising nigh that burning mountain when all aglow with a ball-room blaze.
True, at one period, as to some extent at the present day, large fleets of whalemen cruised for spermaceti upon what some seamen call the Enchanted Ground.
Here he succeeded in raising a sort of degenerate potatoes and pumpkins, which from time to time he exchanged with needy whalemen passing, for spirits or dollars.
It passes without challenge that the isle's men were the most skillful whalemen in the world.
As there is not enough depth of water on Nantucket bar for large ships, Edgartown Harbor was formerly resorted to by the whalemen of this island, to obtain fresh water and fit their ships for sea.
When I first went whaling," quoth he, "you might wake up of a morning in the Sea of Japan with fifty sail of whalemen in sight.
In fact, most of the accidents that happen to whalemen occur when the wounded monster is lashing the water in blind terror and agony.
Soon after, our victim went into its dying agonies, or, as whalemen say, "his flurry.
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