Incidents of a Whaling VoyageD. Appleton and Company, 1841 - 360 páginas |
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... animal is very violent in his move- ments , a few strokes of the spade across the sinews of his flukes , disable these his most powerful weapon of defence and motion . The line is confined to the grove in the bow of the boat by a wooden ...
... animal is very violent in his move- ments , a few strokes of the spade across the sinews of his flukes , disable these his most powerful weapon of defence and motion . The line is confined to the grove in the bow of the boat by a wooden ...
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... animal exhausted with pain , and the violence of his efforts , comes up to breathe , when he receives another harpoon , and several strokes of the lance , and goes down again , lashing the sea furiously in his agony . " Another boat's ...
... animal exhausted with pain , and the violence of his efforts , comes up to breathe , when he receives another harpoon , and several strokes of the lance , and goes down again , lashing the sea furiously in his agony . " Another boat's ...
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... animal " turned up " or rolled over on his side , now harmless , the spoil of his daring captors . When there are other whales in sight , the captured whale is " waifed , " i . e . , a rod of four or five feet in length , bearing a ...
... animal " turned up " or rolled over on his side , now harmless , the spoil of his daring captors . When there are other whales in sight , the captured whale is " waifed , " i . e . , a rod of four or five feet in length , bearing a ...
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... animal comes upon top of water , densed in a white mist , that vanishes in an instant . From the hump , the ridge of the back descends in irregular curves frequently , until it reaches the flukes , The flukes are the most formidable ...
... animal comes upon top of water , densed in a white mist , that vanishes in an instant . From the hump , the ridge of the back descends in irregular curves frequently , until it reaches the flukes , The flukes are the most formidable ...
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... animals , which obliges them to come up to the surface of the water to breathe . The length of time elapsing before they require a fresh supply of air , differs with the size of the animal . A large sperm whale will sometimes stay down ...
... animals , which obliges them to come up to the surface of the water to breathe . The length of time elapsing before they require a fresh supply of air , differs with the size of the animal . A large sperm whale will sometimes stay down ...
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Página 125 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of...
Página 125 - No climate but what is witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been...
Página 125 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people — a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 125 - Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Página 183 - At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing, O'er the deep ! o'er the deep ! Where the whale and the shark and the sword-fish sleep Outflying the blast and the driving rain, The petrel telleth her tale — in vain ; For the mariner curseth the warning bird Who bringeth him news of the storm unheard...
Página 125 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis' Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold; that they are at the antipodes,- and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland...
Página 142 - The ship was then going with about the same velocity. His appearance and attitude gave us at first no alarm, but while I stood watching his movements and observing him, but a ship's length off, coming down for us with great...
Página 142 - After a few moments reflection, and recovering, in some measure, from the sudden consternation that had seized us, I of course concluded that he had stove a hole in the ship, and that it would be necessary to set the pumps going. Accordingly they were rigged, but had not been in operation more than one minute before I perceived the head of the ship to be gradually settling down in the water; I then ordered the signal to be set for the other boats...
Página 142 - ... he gave us such an appalling and tremendous jar, as nearly threw us all on our faces. The ship brought up as suddenly and violently as if she had struck a rock, and trembled for a few seconds like a leaf. We looked at each other with perfect amazement, deprived almost of the power of speech. Many minutes elapsed before we were able to realize the dreadful accident; during which time he passed under the ship, grazing her keel as he went along, came up alongside of her to leeward, and lay on the...
Página 329 - And the devils besought Him, saying : If Thou cast us out hence, send us into the herd of swine. And He said to them : Go. And they, going out, went into the swine; and behold, the whole herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.