The little colony had been joined before that time by a seaman from a whaling ship, named John Buffet, who deliberately settled there and constituted himself chaplain and schoolmaster.
Katharine, it cannot be helped, I am going on a whaling voyage; nothing better presented itself, and I must not be idle.
A whaling voyage--that was like a life banishment to an old couple who had so many gray hairs on their temples.
The elements of the story are a South Sea whaling voyage, narrated by Ishmael, one of the crew of the ship Pequod, from Nantucket.
Lying at the wharves and riding in the stream, were full-rigged ships of finest model, ready to start on whaling voyages.
Men talked here of going whaling on a four years' voyage with more coolness than sailors where I came from talked of going a four months' voyage.
Old Captain Brownell, a Yankee whaling skipper, was long since dead.
He was so glad to have me wid him that he found an excuse for whaling me afore last night and then played this trick on me.
I won't say anything about this ghost of a maal whin I arrive at home, and mither will be so touched wid pity that after reminding dad to give me a big whaling she will allow me to ate up all that happens to be in the house.
Come right to land, and resave the whaling ye desarve.
We traced it to an American whaler, for the trade of this coast is now no longer in Russian hands, but in those of the whaling fleet from the Golden Gate.
This man was returning with a sled-load of bearskins and fox furs, to trade to the whaling fleet.
Footnote 58: The name Whalen should probably be written as it is pronounced--Oo-aylin, but I have adopted the mode of spelling in use amongst the whaling fraternity.
The sea therefore becomes to them a kind of patrimony; they go to whaling with as much pleasure and tranquil indifference, with as strong an expectation of success, as a landsman undertakes to clear a piece of swamp.
Instead of cards, musical instruments, or songs, they relate stories of their whaling voyages, their various sea adventures, and talk of the different coasts and people they have visited.
By means of all these commercial negotiations, they have greatly cheapened the fitting out of their whaling fleets, and therefore much improved their fisheries.
Whaling has almost ceased to have a place in the long list of our national industries.
The old-fashioned whaling tubs kept the seas, while the growing scarcity of the whales and the blow to the demand for oil dealt by the discovery of petroleum, checked the development of the industry.
Some Nantucket whalemen were indeed enticed to the new English whaling town at Dartmouth, near Halifax, or to the French town of Dunkirk.
As a rule the voyage to the Pacific whaling waters was round Cape Horn, though occasionally a vessel made its way to the eastward and rounded the Cape of Good Hope.
It was the most practical communism that industry has ever seen, and it worked to the satisfaction of all concerned as long as the whaling trade continued profitable.
In the form of its business organization the business of whaling was the purest form of profit-sharing we have ever seen in the United States.
Stories of "fighting whales" fill the chronicles of our old whaling ports.
Accordingly the most was made of the opportunities afforded by war for crushing the whaling industry.
Curiously enough, there did not begin to be a literature of whaling until the industry went into its decadence.
The whaling towns were populated by women, children, and old men.
This method of whaling is still followed at Amagansett and Southampton, on the shore of Long Island, though the growing scarcity of whales makes catches infrequent.
He came in his ship from Newbeddifordimass, and he said that it was for the last time, for the whaling was done.
Grytviken, on South Georgia, was a 19th and early 20th century whaling station.
The luck of the navy was with the American captain for, as he went poking about the Galapagos Islands, he surprised three fine, large British whaling ships, all carrying guns and too useful to destroy.
Porter conceived the bold plan of rounding the Horn and playing havoc with the British whaling fleet.
As a raid there was nothing to match this cruise until the Alabama ran amuck among the Yankee clippers and whaling barks half a century later.
He was a Norwegian sailor, he said, and belonged to an American whaler which had been on her voyage home after a three years' whaling cruise in the South Pacific.
The whaling schooner reached Table Bay in safety, without encountering any storms similar to that which had led to the loss of the Nancy Bell, and all the rescued castaways were shortly afterwards landed at Cape Town.
A cut with one of the long whaling knives under the back-fin is usually fatal to these huge animals.
No similar precautions are adopted in the merchant or whaling service.
Some years ago, I was in a whaling ship lying in a harbour of the Pacific, with three French men-of-war alongside.
And once for all, sir, I shall never marry a mere merchant sailor--a common whaling master.
A whaling voyage was so very dangerous, and he might get hurt or killed.
After "trying-out" Foster kept on to the northward to the sperm-whaling grounds in the Moluccas.
The object of this is to obtain leave for our whaling vessels to refit and refresh on the coast of the Brazils; an object of immense importance to that class of our vessels.
It is possible too, that they might permit our whaling vessels to refresh in Brazil, or give some other indulgences in America.
During the next decade the English did something to improve this state of affairs, but their endeavour was made too late, and by the time they woke up to the situation the heyday of South Sea whaling was gone.
In 1791 some returning convict transports, whose captains had provided themselves with whaling gear, engaged in the whale fishing in the South Pacific on their way home to England.
They embraced each other like children, and the man, pulling off his hat, called upon the good Lord to thank the gentleman.
Frenchman, in a frenzy of delight, "I will double it.
Then at last news came, the first news of the Erebus and the Terror since they were sighted by the whaling ship in 1845.
A whaling ship, the Prince of Wales, sighted the two vessels on July 26.
No message could have come except {118} by the chance of a whaling ship or in some roundabout way through the territories of the Hudson's Bay Company, after all but a slender chance.
On the fourth day Mills decided to carry the boats and whaling gear overland to a bight in the bay to the west.
This apprentice repaired the boat, which afterwards proved to be the fastest out of forty-one boats that went out whaling in Portland Bay every morning.
When I got my ticket I sometimes went working in th' bush, sometimes whaling and sealing, and sometimes stripping bark at Western Port and Portland Bay, before there was such a place as Melbourne.
These were facts made known to, and discussed by, all the whalers who entered the Tamar, when the whaling season was over in the year 1835.
Whaling vessels were fitted out in Sydney, and it was found that money could be made by oil and whalebone as well as by rum.
The share of the crew of a whaling vessel was one-fiftieth of the value of the oil and bone.
He took with him two boats with all theirwhaling gear, in case he should see a whale.
The Hentys also had a whaling station at Double Corner, and by offering to supply their men with fresh meat three times a week, obtained the pick of the whalers.
In the Mary, accompanied by two small boats, and with a crew of ten, they went on a whalingexpedition to the Strait of Belle Isle.
A bark that had gone around Cape Horn on a whalingvoyage had not returned.
