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1October 13. "There she blows," was sung out from the mast-head. "Where away?" demanded the captain. "Three points off
2the lee bow, sir." "Raise up your wheel. Steady!" "Steady, sir." "Mast-head ahoy! Do you see that whale now?" "Ay ay,
3sir! A shoal of Sperm Whales! There she blows! There she breaches!" "Sing out! sing out every time!" "Ay Ay, sir! There
4she blows! there--there--thar she blows--bowes--bo-o-os!" "How far off?" "Two miles and a half." "Thunder and lightning!
5so near! Call all hands." --J. Ross Browne's Etchings of a Whaling Cruize. 1846. "The Whale-ship Globe, on board of
6which vessel occurred the horrid transactions we are about to relate, belonged to the island of Nantucket." --"Narrative
7of the Globe Mutiny," by Lay and Hussey survivors. A.D. 1828. Being once pursued by a whale which he had wounded, he
8parried the assault for some time with a lance; but the furious monster at length rushed on the boat; himself and
9comrades only being preserved by leaping into the water when they saw the onset was inevitable." --Missionary Journal of
10Tyerman and Bennett. "Nantucket itself," said Mr. Webster, "is a very striking and peculiar portion of the National
11interest. There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons living here in the sea, adding largely every year to
12the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering industry." --Report of Daniel Webster's Speech in the U. S.
13Senate, on the application for the Erection of a Breakwater at Nantucket. "The whale fell directly over him, and
14probably killed him in a moment." --"The Whale and his Captors, or The Whaleman's Adventures and the Whale's Biography,
15gathered on the Homeward Cruise of the Commodore Preble." By Rev. Henry T. Cheever. "If you make the least damn bit of
16noise," replied Samuel, "I will send you to hell." --Life of Samuel Comstock (the mutineer), by his brother, William
17Comstock. Another Version of the whale-ship Globe narrative. "The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern
18Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to India, though they failed of their main object,
19laid-open the haunts of the whale." --McCulloch's Commercial Dictionary. "These things are reciprocal; the ball
20rebounds, only to bound forward again; for now in laying open the haunts of the whale, the whalemen seem to have
21indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West Passage." --From "Something" unpublished. "It is impossible
22to meet a whale-ship on the ocean without being struck by her near appearance. The vessel under short sail, with
23look-outs at the mast-heads, eagerly scanning the wide expanse around them, has a totally different air from those
24engaged in regular voyage." --Currents and Whaling. U.S. Ex. Ex. "Pedestrians in the vicinity of London and elsewhere
25may recollect having seen large curved bones set upright in the earth, either to form arches over gateways, or entrances
26to alcoves, and they may perhaps have been told that these were the ribs of whales." --Tales of a Whale Voyager to the
27Arctic Ocean. "It was not till the boats returned from the pursuit of these whales, that the whites saw their ship in
28bloody possession of the savages enrolled among the crew." --Newspaper Account of the Taking and Retaking of the
29Whale-Ship Hobomack. "It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in
30the ships on board of which they departed." --Cruise in a Whale Boat. "Suddenly a mighty mass emerged from the water,
31and shot up perpendicularly into the air. It was the whale." --Miriam Coffin or the Whale Fisherman. "The Whale is
32harpooned to be sure; but bethink you, how you would manage a powerful unbroken colt, with the mere appliance of a rope
33tied to the root of his tail." --A Chapter on Whaling in Ribs and Trucks. "On one occasion I saw two of these monsters
34(whales) probably male and female, slowly swimming, one after the other, within less than a stone's throw of the shore"
35(Terra Del Fuego), "over which the beech tree extended its branches." --Darwin's Voyage of a Naturalist. "'Stern all!'
36exclaimed the mate, as upon turning his head, he saw the distended jaws of a large Sperm Whale close to the head of the
37boat, threatening it with instant destruction;--'Stern all, for your lives!'" --Wharton the Whale Killer. "So be cheery,
38my lads, let your hearts never fail, While the bold harpooneer is striking the whale!" --Nantucket Song. "Oh, the rare
39old Whale, mid storm and gale In his ocean home will be A giant in might, where might is right, And King of the
40boundless sea." --Whale Song.
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