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Updated: May 5, 2025
The Scarboro carried crew enough to put out six boats at a time and still leave a boatkeeper and cook aboard. The gun forward in the Scarboro's bows, however, was there for a purpose, too, as I found out on the first day we sighted a whale. The man in the crowsnest suddenly hailed the deck, when Mr.
Captain Rogers was not the man to lay hove to in any fair breeze. We outran the bad weather before we crossed the line and then the lookout went to the masthead and from that time on, as long as I was with the Scarboro, the crowsnest was never empty by day.
It began much as other busy days had begun for us of the Scarboro, since we got upon the whaling grounds; the fires under the trying-out kettles were scarcely quenched when, just at daybreak, came the hail of the man in the crowsnest: "On deck, sir! Ah-h blows!"
I saw that she was a bark; then I saw that her crowsnest was occupied by a lookout. Only one manner of craft would have a man in the crowsnest on a clear day like this. She was a whaler. I had no glass; but I fixed my gaze upon her black bows as they rose and fell as she came through the waves. My heart had begun to beat with excitement.
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