We had seen whales for several days and once passed a whaleship at work trying out; but it was not the Scarboro.
Nor was the possibility of being rescued by a whaleship so slight as it would have been a few years before.
Anapuni and I were only commoners, as were all of us kanakas and wahines who were at the drinking with the common sailors and whaleship men from before the mast.
Away we went off to leeward, but it soon appeared that his whaleship was too shy for us, and was playing a dodge game with us.
A whaleship trying out at night presents one of the most weird and striking pictures that can well be imagined.
Amongst other accomplishments Lalia could swear fluently both in French and English, having besides a thorough command of whaleshipoaths which, I may observe, are unique in their way, and never seen in print.
And then, ere the captain of the whaleship could stay him, he went on deck, descended the gangway, and was rowed ashore to the glittering lights of the southern city.
I remember the whaleship Essex," the Ancient Mariner told Dag Daughtry.
Much interested in this, he refused to sell the gun to severalwhaleship captains, who each wanted to buy it.
They came here together in a whaleship from the Bonin Islands with their wives--two sisters, who were Portuguese half-castes, and both very beautiful women.
One day they heard from the captain of a whaleship that there was much money to be made on this island of Peru, for although there were many beachcombers living here there was no trader to whom the people could sell their oil.
I was landed here by an American whaleship five months ago.
But there's nothing much to see except the graves of two of the crew of a whaleship who were buried at the end of this island about four or five years ago.
Twice in one whaleship did I sail among the ice mountains of the far south, where the wind cuts like a knife and the sea is black to look at Tapa!
By and by an American whaleship came to Callao, and I went on board.
Before time, whaleship come America for take water and wood.
Alice Snow las' whaleship come Vait-hua six years before," said the Seventh Man Who Wallows.
Before time, come prenty whaleship my place," he said.
Less than forty years back they were notorious cannibals, and very warlike, and never hesitated to attempt to cut off any whaleship or trading vessel that was not well manned and well armed.
Dat's what the captain of de Fanny Long Hobart Town whaleship got fo' a piece eleven poun' weight in Sydney last June.
I was cook on a whaleship fo' five years, and have handled little bits of ambergris two or three times, but no one in de world, I believe, ever see such a lump like dis.
Towards four or five o'clock a whaleship was sighted about four miles off the land; and as it was falling calm, Jimmy decided to pull out to her and try to buy a bolt or two of canvas.
We can live here very comfortably until a whaleship or trading schooner comes along.
And just then, all of a sudden, the Whaleship bumped into a motor boat, and nearly upset it.
This canoe was followed by many others, but the leading one alone came close enough to the whaleship to communicate.
We had been at sea two days when we spoke the Yankee whaleship Charles, and ran so close alongside that it was possible to hail her, when the skipper was summoned on board to give information.
The Essex was run within hailing distance, and then we learned that our prize was the British whaleship Montezuma, with fourteen hundred barrels of oil on board.
We had some thirty passengers; among them a cheerful soul by the name of Williams, and three sea-worn old whaleship captains going down to join their vessels.
From these one gets a good look off to sea and can readily fancy wives and sweethearts climbing to them to watch for some whaleship that left port perhaps three years before.
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