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- Nantucket.” —“_Narrative of the Globe Mutiny_,” _by Lay and Hussey
survivors. A.D._ 1828.
Being once pursued by a whale which he had wounded, he parried the
assault for some time with a lance; but the furious monster at length
rushed on the boat; himself and comrades only being preserved by
leaping into the water when they saw the onset was inevitable.”
—_Missionary Journal of Tyerman and Bennett_.
“Nantucket itself,” said Mr. Webster, “is a very striking and
peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of
eight or nine thousand persons living here in the sea, adding largely
every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering
industry.” —_Report of Daniel Webster’s Speech in the U. S. Senate,
on the application for the Erection of a Breakwater at Nantucket_.
1828.
“The whale fell directly over him, and probably killed him in a
moment.” —“_The Whale and his Captors, or The Whaleman’s Adventures
and the Whale’s Biography, gathered on the Homeward Cruise of the
Commodore Preble_.” _By Rev. Henry T. Cheever_.
“If you make the least damn bit of noise,” replied Samuel, “I will
send you to hell.” —_Life of Samuel Comstock_ (_the mutineer_), _by
his brother, William Comstock. Another Version of the whale-ship
Globe narrative_.
“The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in
order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to India, though
they failed of their main object, laid-open the haunts of the whale.”
—_McCulloch’s Commercial Dictionary_.
“These things are reciprocal; the ball rebounds, only to bound
forward again; for now in laying open the haunts of the whale, the
whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same
mystic North-West Passage.” —_From_ “_Something_” _unpublished_.
“It is impossible to meet a whale-ship on the ocean without being
struck by her near appearance. The vessel under short sail, with
look-outs at the mast-heads, eagerly scanning the wide expanse around
them, has a totally different air from those engaged in regular
voyage.” —_Currents and Whaling. U.S. Ex. Ex_.
“Pedestrians in the vicinity of London and elsewhere may recollect
having seen large curved bones set upright in the earth, either to
form arches over gateways, or entrances to alcoves, and they may
perhaps have been told that these were the ribs of whales.” —_Tales
of a Whale Voyager to the Arctic Ocean_.
“It was not till the boats returned from the pursuit of these whales,
that the whites saw their ship in bloody possession of the savages
enrolled among the crew.” —_Newspaper Account of the Taking and
Retaking of the Whale-Ship Hobomack_.
“It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels
(American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they
departed.” —_Cruise in a Whale Boat_.
“Suddenly a mighty mass emerged from the water, and shot up
perpendicularly into the air. It was the whale.” —_Miriam Coffin or
the Whale Fisherman_.
“The Whale is harpooned to be sure; but bethink you, how you would
manage a powerful unbroken colt, with the mere appliance of a rope
tied to the root of his tail.” —_A Chapter on Whaling in Ribs and
Trucks_.
“On one occasion I saw two of these monsters (whales) probably male
and female, slowly swimming, one after the other, within less than a
stone’s throw of the shore” (Terra Del Fuego), “over which the beech
tree extended its branches.” —_Darwin’s Voyage of a Naturalist_.
“‘Stern all!’ exclaimed the mate, as upon turning his head, he saw
the distended jaws of a large Sperm Whale close to the head of the
boat, threatening it with instant destruction;—‘Stern all, for your
lives!’” —_Wharton the Whale Killer_.
“So be cheery, my lads, let your hearts never fail, While the bold
harpooneer is striking the whale!” —_Nantucket Song_.
“Oh, the rare old Whale, mid storm and gale In his ocean home will be
A giant in might, where might is right, And King of the boundless
sea.” —_Whale Song_.
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