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Updated: June 10, 2025
There were her heavy quarter-davits, her hoisting gear, and whale-killing gear; her long, sharp boats, lashed so carefully, some to her davits, others athwart her quarter-deck frames; and about all of which there was a mysterious interest.
"I'll bet he could make that old thing whiz," muttered John. "Still, I don't see how he could hurt a whale with it." None of them knew at that time anything about the native Aleut method of whale-killing.
The lucky old ship Pacific, with her famous old whale-killing captain, had made a bad voyage of it this time. Fifteen months had passed since she took her departure off the Highlands of New York, and now she had just weighed anchor, and with her canvas spread once more was bidding good bye to Coquimbo, and proceeding to cruise among the islands of the South Sea.
Neither did they know that the nogock, or whale-killing weapon, is a sacred object in the native villages, where it is always kept in the charge of the headman, or leader in the whale-hunts, who wraps it up carefully and hides it from view.
I was inclined to the belief that this species was the orca, a whale-killing fish. Boatmen and deep-sea men report these blackfish to be dangerous and had better be left alone. They certainly looked ugly. We believed they were chasing tuna. The channel that day contained more whales than I ever saw before at one time. We counted six pairs in sight.
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