No whaler could attack the huge rollers that raised their monstrous backs, plunged over with a furious roar, and bespread the beach with a swirl of foam.
In 1860 a whaler and crew were attacked by their war-canoes sallying out from behind Scotchman's Head.
After discharging our freight at Oldtown, on the Vineyard, I went home to New Bedford, where I stayed three months, when I again shipped aboard of a whalercalled the Delight, Captain Philip Sanford.
Here I stayed but about one month before I again shipped on board a whaler called the Mechanic, of Newport, Rhode Island.
You know," the whaler said, "how natives go to pieces when civilization hits 'em.
Yes, they got through all right," the whaler answered.
He was pacing up and down the deck with the whaler a day or two before the Bear reached Point Barrow.
Pulling straight in on the course he indicated, the heavily laden whaler grounded a couple of hundred yards from the shore, and was only worried off by all hands going aft and raising the stranded bow.
The old pier, to the end of which the whaler was now pulled, had evidently been wrecked in a storm of many years before and never repaired.
On the contrary, it appears, he had lingered in the stern sheets of the whaler until the last of the Allied officers had slid along out of hearing, and then coolly ordered two of the crew to wade ashore carrying him between them.
Hindy" disappeared again during the next hour of waiting, and even had to be sent for when the whaler finally did arrive.
At one moment the whaler would be tossing high upon the rounded crest of a wave, with the other boat deep in the trough.
They, too, baled vigorously, with the result that once more the whaler was free from water.
Before the boat could pull clear of the scene of disaster, a vicious, crested wave, so hollow that the lean quarters of the whaler were unable to rise to it, poured into the frail craft.
For some distance the whaler drifted to leeward, until held by the strain of the painter she rode head to wind, and in comparative safety in the wake of the floating breakwater.
The man was right, for, as the whaler rose on the crests of the waves, a dark, grey shape could be discerned through the mirk at a distance of about a couple of miles.
Vernon's boat, which possessed the only lantern that would burn, was to take the lead as soon as darkness set in, the light enabling the whaler to keep in touch with her consort.
Early next morning, the Capella having returned to her station off Yarmouth to await orders, Vernon Haye went ashore in charge of the whaler in order to pick up mails and secure fresh provisions.
At the next, nothing was to be seen from the whaler save an incline of green water and a canopy of dark-grey sky.
Up rose the boat's gunwale as high as the men's arms could reach, but with a dull swish the whaler resumed its former position.
Setting the rescued men to take an oar each, for there were several to spare lying on the thwarts, Ross took the whaler closer in, since he had now more means of propulsion at his command.
And so the surgeon of the whaler ran on, not at all aware that he was condemning himself and his companions, and their practices, and praising the long-benighted savages.
This information he gave to every whaler and other vessel the Southern Cross fell in with.
We were indeed alone, by many hundreds of miles, and never having felt anxious about a ship before, the old whaler was to give me a new experience.
Scott had a whaler launched, and we pulled in under the cliffs.
It was quite exciting, however, as we would slip in close in a lull, and the chaps in the whaler would yell, 'Look out!
In the morning, Evans, Rennick, Oates and I, with two seamen and Gran, took the whaler and pram in to rescue the maroons.
She might be mistaken for a whalercoming off a four years' cruise.
Above all, would a whaler be to his fancy, as among the most interesting books of his reading have been some that described the "Chase of Leviathan," and he longs to take a part in it.
Hitherto we had been buoyed up with the expectation of relief; now the most sanguine felt that the lastwhaler had departed for the season.
The language of signs for such work is very necessary, and every whaler comprehends them.
A most important contrivance belonging to a whaler is the crow's-nest, which I may describe as a sentry-box at the mast-head.
The masts of a whaler are lower than in a common merchantman, and her sails are smaller, and cut in a different shape, the courses or lower sails decreasing towards the foot, so as to be worked with slight strength.
On this the idea was started of building a vessel, and attempting to reach Newfoundland in her, or to try and fall in with some whalerat the entrance of Davis' Straits.
The oldwhaler chuckled, in the way he always did when he had got, what he called, the weather-gauge of me.
The Huskies make out on it for weeks together, and quite a few of the steam whaler men have trailed an odd hundred or two miles over it one time or another.
A steam whaler at Portland reports the same thing, and from the news brought by a steamer from Japan all communication with North-Eastern Asia is already cut off.
He had heard from steam whaler skippers a little about the tundra that fringes the Polar Sea, the vast desolation frozen hard in summer a few inches below the surface, on which nothing beyond the mosses ever grew.
He had sailed these seas in command of the whaler Caroline, and had made more than one trip to Cloudy Bay.
A degenerate whaler named Dick Cook had cruelly murdered a native woman, Rangiawha Kuika, who was the wife of an Englishman named Wynen.
He owned a small vessel, which was commanded by one of his whaler friends, in which he frequently made trips to Sydney.
The whaler not unnaturally thought he had come to take his life, and, in his subsequent narration of the incident, he indulged in some heroics, telling how he had challenged the chief to slay him on the spot.
In the grey of the early morning a whaler named Brown was awakened by a sound at the door of his hut, and, as he raised himself on his elbow, he saw the tall form of Rangihaeata enter the room with a tomahawk in his hand.
It soon became clear that Barrett's qualification to interpret was that he spoke whaler Maori, a jargon that bears much the same relation to the real language as the pigeon English of the Chinese does to our mother tongue.
Te Rauparaha did not wait for a naval officer, but gave the document to a whaler protege of his, named Hawes, then living at his island fortress.
The barque turned out to be a South Sea whaler from New York, which had suffered severely in a recent gale which had driven her far out of her course to the northward.
Getting out of the whaler was very dangerous and difficult.
I went in the admiral's whalerand began to curse myself.
At twelve o'clock I returned to the Suvaroff from the Roland in the whaler again.
The only time Woody ever saw a man killed by a bear was once when he had given a touch of variety to his life by shipping on a New Bedford whaler which had touched at one of the Puget Sound ports.
The whaler went up to a part of Alaska where bears were very plentiful and bold.
Stepping from the dazzling whiteness of the outside, the interior of the whaler was black as a pocket, and he paused upon the stairs to accustom his eyes to the change.
I saw your vessel from the ridge, and thought I would come over and see what a whaler looks like.
The whaler he judged to be frozen in at a distance of three or four miles from shore.
During the night, however, the gale completely ceased; and when I came on deck I saw the whaler under all sail standing out of the harbour, with the wind off the land.
If the Heroine, from any cause, does not appear, we may hope that a whaler or some other craft may pass by and see our signals.
We thought, also, that we should be more likely to fall in with a whaler or sandal-wood trader belonging to New South Wales, which Mudge understood were in the habit of visiting the islands in those seas.
The captain of thewhaler lent me one of his boats, paid me a fair price for the loss of our own, and otherwise treated us handsomely.
I doubt whether even a man-of-war could have given this work the despatch the whaler furnished.
It might be perhaps that the whaler was making a more northerly course than we, and under very snug canvas, though ours was snug enough, too; but be this as it may, I was mighty pleased with the slipping qualities of the schooner.
The whaler did not brace his yards up till after we had started, and now hung a pale faint mass in the windy darkness on the quarter.
Such a fountain of joy broke out of my heart that my whole being was flooded with it, and had that mood lasted I believe I should have exposed the treasure in the run, and invited all the men of the whaler to share in it with me.
The whaler was hove up, and a guard with side-arms marched them before a Russian officer, and he was quite anxious to know where they'd last seen the schooner.
It was 'bout through with the afternoon watch when the fog shut down on the four of them in the whaler in Russian water.
On the 16th the French whaler Comte de Paris, having on board 57 French emigrants, arrived.
