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Updated: May 12, 2025
For one day one of the natives from the cove told them that some way down the coast at the anchorage was a British whaling-ship." "'Gee, he said, 'I wonder if I could make a trade of some nuts and plantains for a pound or two of tobacco."
The battle had lasted two and a half hours. On his surrender, the Essex Junior, a whaling-ship which he had converted into a sloop-of-war, but which had been unable to take any part in the battle, was sent home with the prisoners on parole. The young midshipman, then a boy under thirteen, was in the hottest of the fight, and was slightly wounded during the action.
Enoch had been captain and part owner of a Pacific whaler; she had recently burned at Honolulu, and he was back home now to buy a new ship. He had heard that I, his little brother John, was the best locomotive engineer in the whole world, and had come to see me partly on account of relationship, but more to get my advice about buying a steam whaling-ship.
We had been run down by the whaling-ship, which was close-hauled, beating up to Nantucket with every sail she could venture to set, and consequently running almost at right angles to our own course.
Dodd and I went off in another roar of laughter, which puzzled poor Andrei more and more. "Where did you learn?" Dodd asked. "The sailors of a whaling-ship learned it to me when I was in Petropavlovsk, two years ago; isn't it a good song?" he said, evidently fearing that there might be something improper in the sentiment.
Overhanging the river at the garden side was a broad terrace which ended in a pleasant summer-house, and here many pages of the author's next book "The Red Rover" were written. After he left the navy, and while he was living in Angevine, Cooper became part owner in a whaling-ship, The Union, of Sag Harbor.
John Buzzby stood on the pier of the sea-port town of Grayton watching the active operations of the crew of a whaling-ship which was on the point of starting for the ice-bound seas of the Frozen Regions, and making sundry remarks to a stout, fair-haired boy of fifteen, who stood by his side gazing at the ship with an expression of deep sadness.
Rauparaha, the young chief of a small tribe living round the harbour of Kawhia on the West Coast, realised that his Waikato neighbours must from their geographical position acquire the precious weapons before his own tribe could do so. The outlook was desperate, and the remedy must be of an heroic nature. Rauparaha travelled down the coast to Kapiti, and there saw a European whaling-ship.
They moved about the front rooms, filled with trophies from the deep, a Nantucketer's treasures bits of pottery from China, weavings from the Indies, lacquers from Japan over all, spicy reminders of far archipelagoes, and the clean fragrance of cedar. On the mantel in the parlor stood a full-rigged ship, a whaling-ship, with her trying-house and small-boats a full ship, homeward bound....
He established a forge in Helena, Arkansas, and that was burned in a great fire which consumed the whole town. Next he fell into the hands of Indians in the Rocky Mountains, and only through a miracle was he saved by Canadian trappers. Then he served as a sailor on a vessel running between Bahia and Bordeaux, and as harpooner on a whaling-ship; both vessels were wrecked.
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