History of the American Whale Fishery from its Earliest Inception to the Year 1876The author, 1878 - 768 páginas |
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Adams American ports-Continued arrival Bark barrels Bbls Bedford Benjamin boat Bought from Boston Brazil Brig Built Cape Captain captured Charles Coffin condemned Conn Cook crew Dartmouth Edgartown Edward Fairhaven fishery Folger Gardner George Gibbs Gifford Hathaway Henry Howland Hussey Indian Ocean Island James Jenney John Joseph July 15 July 20 June 19 June 20 Last reported London lost Luce Macy Managing owner Mass Mass.-Continued Mattapoisett N. W. Coast Name of vessel Nantucket North Pacific Ocean July owner or agent Pacific Ocean Parker Patagonia Perry port pounds bone Provincetown Result of voyage returns of whaling-vessels Rotch Russell Sag Harbor sailing from American Samuel Schooner second mate Sent home Sept Ship sloop Smith sold South Atlantic South Atlantic July sperm Sperm-oil Starbuck Swain Taber Table showing returns taken at last Thomas Tonnage Westport whale whale-fishery Whale-oil Whalebone whalemen whaling-vessels Name withdrawn York
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Página 61 - 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 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 61 - 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 hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people...
Página 61 - ... when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, — I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
Página 61 - For some time past, the old world has been fed from the new. The scarcity which you have felt would have been a desolating famine, if this child of your old age, with a true filial piety, with a Roman charity, had not put the full breast of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent.
Página 114 - But where, thought I, is the crew? Their struggle has long been over ; they have gone down amidst the roar of the tempest ; their bones lie whitening among the caverns of the deep. Silence, oblivion, like the waves, have closed over them, and no one can tell the story of their end.
Página 122 - How often has the mistress, the wife, the mother, pored over the daily news to catch some casual intelligence of this rover of the deep! How has expectation darkened into anxiety, anxiety into dread, and dread into despair! Alas! not one memento shall ever return for love to cherish. All that shall ever be known, is that she sailed from her port,
Página 122 - ... the caverns of the deep. Silence, oblivion, like the waves, have closed over them, and no one can tell the story of their end. What sighs have been wafted after that ship ! what prayers offered up at the deserted fireside of home ! How often has the...
Página 61 - 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's 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.
Página 21 - And so God send the good ship to her desired port in safety. Amen, dated in London the day of September, 7679 George Churchey.
Página 59 - Colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Providence Plantation, in North America, to Great Britain, Ireland, and the British islands in the West Indies ; and to prohibit such Provinces and Colonies from carrying on any fishery on the Banks of Newfoundland or other places therein to be mentioned, under certain conditions, and for a time to be limited.