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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

The illustrations used in this brochure are from rare prints in the possession of the Dartmouth Historical Society and the Free Public Library of New Bedford, H. S. Hutchinson & Co., Charles H. Taylor, Jr., Roy C. Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History of New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., and others.


“Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of the 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.”—From a speech by Edmund Burke before Parliament in 1775.

Capturing a huge sperm whale. (From a very rare print.)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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