These whalers were small sloops and schooners, which only went off-shore, captured a whale or two, then returned to try out the oil.
Illustrations: Old Whalers And Barrels Of Oil.
On his return, if he found the whalers in those regions he would go to the States in one of them; if not, he would remain in Esquimo life until their return.
But the whalers had made a "whaling depot" on a cape of Frobisher Bay, which commanded a view of its waters and of the waters of Davis Strait.
October twentieth came, and the whalers had secured three whales--an encouraging success after a long failure.
Ochotsk Sea and Arctic Ocean whalers are fitted for two, three, and four years.
Sperm whalemen, who are not governed by these seasons and between seasons, as right whalers are, are absent from home three and a half and four years, and sometimes longer.
Such was the eloquent commendation given to the energy and perseverance of New England whalers by one of the most distinguished of British statesmen.
The first sperm whale taken by the Nantucket whalers was killed by Christopher Hussey.
SWEPT OUT TO SEA Or Clint Webb Among theWhalers by W.
The breaking up of the frozen ocean was a magnificent spectacle, and "the great voice of the sea," as the whalers graphically describe it, was heard in all its solemnity.
Others from Australia, China, and the Eastern Archipelago, touch here; while whalershave for long been in the habit of putting in here to refit and recruit.
I am glad to see the Yankee whalers, I remember the Yankee whalers very pleasantly.
Whalers and government ships, as they happened to fall into line,--a long three quarters of a mile.
On the 6th of July all the squadron, tangled in the ice, joined a fleet of whalers beset in it, by a temporary opening between the gigantic masses.
Meanwhile the rest of the fleet, whalers and discovery ships, passed on by a little lane of water, the American whaler "McLellan" leading.
We met there thirty whalers with troops and stores ready to ascend.
After thirty whalers had started, I was informed by Lord Avon more of the order to camp.
We found here about a hundred whalers waiting for us.
We shot Ambigol cataract between three and four o'clock and met five whalers at the foot of it.
At Shellal, a steamer with forty whalers in tow received us and started at once towards Wady Halfa.
Soon the whalers were at sea, standing to the north, and Dutch John shorn of his proud position, was shipped as cook on a hard-case New Yorker!
They could name the Captain and Mates of each ship; of the whalers they had the particulars even down to the bulk of oil aboard.
Whalers were in the Bay, fitted out and ready for sea, and only a lack of sailormen kept them within the Golden Gate.
The whalers had a jubilee, for their adventures made large returns; and the business was carried on with renewed spirit.
It is the practice among whalers for the vessel to keep working to windward, while the game is taking, in order to be in the most favourable position to close with the boats, after the whale is killed.
By their latitude at this time they were near Amsterdam Island, on which is that cape or foreland since so well known to whalers as Hakluyt's Headland.
The whalers use such men on occasions as pilots, traders, and interpreters, and to Naukum in particular I know as much as five barrels of villanous whiskey have been entrusted, for which he accounted satisfactorily.
The renewal of these attempts was not brought about by accident or caprice, but was due to a great change, which had been noted by many whalers and navigators.
Nowadays, as we all know, vessels with at least auxiliary, if not complete steam power, are nearly always employed in Government expeditions, and even by whalers in the Arctic seas.
And if there was haste at all times, what was there not when fleets of whalers under different flags were together in the same waters?
Hell ships' were commonest among deepwatermen on long voyages round the Horn, or among the whalers when the best class of foremast hands were not to be had.
Bullen's Cruise of the Cachalot is good reading; but annals that incidentally apply more closely to Bluenose whalersare set forth in Spears's Story of the New England Whalers.
They were last seen by whalers in Lancaster's Sound.
The whalers often carried on their operations in sight of the towns, and heaps of bone at that period lay on the eastern shore.
Various reports were brought bywhalers of its suitableness for sheep farming.
Harvey home to dinner, and met the Captain and Surgeon of one of the French whalersin port; both of whom appeared intelligent, and superior to the class usually met with in such employments.
No one seemed to be doing well but the inn-keeper, and he owed his success chiefly to the custom or traffic of the foreign whalers who occasionally resorted here for refreshments.
The tall flag, known among whalers by the name of "whift," was not the only evidence of the manner in which the cachalot had met its death.
In the winter of 1816, the whalers returning from the Greenland seas to England reported the ice to be clearer than they had ever known it before.
He is very black, Lisa, and I am almost afraid of him; but he is so kind, and he tells me stories about his young days, and all the gay people he used to see.
How his sweet wan face brightened like a pale flower brought into the sunshine!
I never robbed a nest, but bought strings of eggs, which were sold by boys, besides getting sea-fowl eggs from sailors who had been in whalers or on other northern voyages.
He learnt that the American whalers were in great danger, most of them ignorant of the war, cruisers in pursuit of them, and one already taken.
A few days afterwards the Sir Andrew Hammond was captured, believed to be about the last of the British whalers in those parts, and among the finest.
As early as the year 1800 our whalers had learned to seek the sperm whale in these waters, and to enter the harbors of New Zealand for wood and water and to make necessary repairs.
Shandon asked for the names of the last whalers seen there; he knew none of them.
In June and July we should have found an open passage, like the whalers do, but our orders were precise; we were to be here in April.
The whalers call that in our language an ice-field, that is to say a continued surface of ice the limits of which cannot be perceived.
Hatteras, not considering the men's fatigue, resolved to have recourse to means often employed by whalers under similar circumstances.
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