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Updated: May 11, 2025
"Think we're going to have the other boats give us the yah-yah because we pass up a fifty-foot she whale, eh?" demanded the young second officer. "Just step forward here, old timer, and see if you can stick your fork into her." After all, the mate's word was law even to the old boat-steerer. They quickly changed places and Tom took up the iron.
At length, one calm day, a large whale was seen spouting at some distance from the ship. Four boats were lowered. The captain, the two mates, and Brown went in them, Miles Soper going as the chief mate's boat-steerer.
Suddenly she stopped the line had been cut. Would they turn away? No, the crew bend to their oars the boat-steerer stands up and waves. They are seen help will come to them. Again the cheer. "Let us thank God, for He has sent yonder boat to our assistance," said Andrew.
Not that the boat-steerer could enlighten him on the great subject, by any learned lore, for in this Stimson was quite deficient; but his officer found encouragement in the depth and heartiness of his companion's faith, which seemed to be raised above all doubts and misgivings whatever. During the gloomiest moments of that fearful winter, Stephen had been uniformly confiding and cheerful.
But behind his employer's back Kit caught the approving grin of Shorty, who had already caught the whim of his metaphor. Kit steered the length of Linderman, displaying an aptitude that caused both young men of money and disinclination for work to name him boat-steerer. Shorty was no less pleased, and volunteered to continue cooking and leave the boat work to the other.
"Hold on to the line, sir, and give me the other end of it; I will go and see," answered Stimson. It being obviously the most hazardous to remain to the last, and descend without the support of one above him, Roswell acquiesced in this proposal, lowering the boat-steerer down the rock, until he too was hid from his sight.
"Ay, ay!" cried Tabor, our boat-steerer. "What do you say, boys? Shall we lick 'em?" "Pull! pull like vengeance!" echoed the crew; and we danced over the waves, scarcely seeming to touch them. The chase was now truly soul-stirring. Sometimes the larboard, then the starboard, then the waist-boat took the lead. It was a severe trial of skill and muscle.
We thought that we had got him. "Hurrah, lads!" cried Barney Brian, an old boat-steerer. "Haul in steadily now his last swim is over." We hauled away an the line with a will, and the mate stood, lance in hand, ready to plunge it into his side, when he shouted, "Stern all veer away the line, lads!"
Stimson was summoned to be of the party, his officer having got to be accustomed to, and desirous of, his company. For the first two hours after quitting the house, Gardiner, Daggett, and the boat-steerer, were busily employed in working their way across the broken surface of the island, to the base of the cone-like pinnacle that formed the apex of all.
They had no hope of ever even seeing me again. And then it was that the sharp eyes of the old boat-steerer descried my arm above the surface, not many yards away. "There! look yon!" he yelled. "Pull, you lubbers!" They shot the boat ahead and the old man seized me, plunging in his arm to the shoulder as I sank again.
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