Part 2

“The Glacier’s Gift” (Nantucket), by Eva C. G. Folger.

“History of New Bedford,” by Daniel Ricketson.

“The Perils and Romance of Whaling,” by G. Kobbé.

“The Whale and its Captors,” by Rev. Henry T. Cheever.

“Incidents of a Whaling Voyage,” by Olmstead.

“Nimrod of the Sea,” by Captain Davis.

“Hunting the Biggest of all Big Game,” by Roy C. Andrews.

“Four Years Aboard a Whaleship,” by William B. Whitecar, Jr.

“Etchings of a Whaling Cruise,” by J. Ross Browne.

“Bark Kathleen, sunk by a Whale,” by Capt. T. H. Jenkins.

“Peter the Whaler,” by William H. G. Kingston.

“The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States,” by George Brown Goode, prepared for the United States Tenth Census.

CONTENTS

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THE WHALE 7

ANCIENT HISTORY OF WHALING 8

EARLY NEW ENGLAND WHALING 13

NANTUCKET 16

NEW BEDFORD 23

OTHER NEW ENGLAND WHALING PORTS 33

ABOARD A “BLUBBER HUNTER” 35

WHALING IMPLEMENTS AND WHALEBOATS 37

DIFFERENT SPECIES OF WHALES AND THEIR PRODUCTS 41

METHODS OF CAPTURE AND “TRYING OUT” 45

THE PERILS OF WHALING 51

THE “CATALPA” EXPEDITION 58

DECLINE OF WHALING AND THE CAUSES 60

WHALING OF TO-DAY 62