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Tripp, George H., "Whaling Ventures and Adventures." Included in the 



io8th Report of the New England Society of the City of New York. 

 Hawes, Charles Boardman, "Whaling." New York, 1924. 

 Chatterton, E, Keble, "Whalers and Whaling." New York, 1926. 



VI — Historical Material Containing Incidental 

 References to Whaling 



, The New Bedford Mercury. Published weekly from August 7, 1807, 



until February 28, 183 1. Thereafter daily. Published in New Bedford, the 

 greatest whaling port in the world, this newspaper inevitably contained count- 

 less references to whaling. 



Harris, John, "Zebulon; or. The Moral Claims of Seamen Stated and En- 

 forced." Boston, 1837. (This first American edition was adapted and re- 

 vised from the third London edition.) 



Jewell, J. G., "Among Our Sailors." New York, 1874. The author was for 

 some years an American consul in the Orient; and in this book he describes 

 the shocking treatment of American seamen, — a subject which his official 

 duties forced him to observe at close range. 



, Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review. Contains frequent 



references to whaling, especially in Volumes III, VI, VIII, IX, X, XIV, 

 XVI, XXVI, and XLI. 



, The Sailors' Magazine. The organ of the American Seamen's Friend 



Society. Published monthly at New York. Volumes I-XLV, 1828-1873. 



Pease, Z. W., and Hough, G. A., "New Bedford, Mass.: Its History, Indus- 

 try, Institutions, and Attractions." Published by the New Bedford Board of 

 Trade, 1889. Chapter II is devoted particularly to the whale fishery. 



Thompson, B. F., "The History of Long Island." New York, 1839. (2nd 

 Edition, revised and enlarged, New York, 1843). 



Bliss, W. R., "Quaint Nantucket." Boston and New York, 1896. 



Howland, Franklyn, "A History of the Town of Acushnet, Bristol Co., Mass." 

 New Bedford, 1907. 



Spooner, Nathaniel (Compiler), "Gleanings From the Records of the Boston 

 Marine Society, Through Its First Century, 1742 to 1842." Boston, 1879. 



Pitkin, Timothy, "Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States." 

 New Haven, 1835. 



— — , "Accounts of Shipwreck and of Other Disasters at Sea, designed to be 

 Interesting and Useful to Mariners." Compiled by a "Friend of Seamen." 

 Brunswick, Maine, 1823. 



, "The Mariner's Chronicle: Containing Narratives of the Most Remark- 

 able Disasters at Sea, such as Storms, Shipwrecks, Fires, and Famines. 

 Also Naval Engagements, Piratical Adventures, etc." New Haven, 1834. 



, "The Mariner's Library, or Voyager's Companion. Containing Nar- 

 ratives of the Most Popular Voyages, From the Time of Columbus to the 

 Present Day, with Accounts of Remarkable Shipwrecks, Naval Adventures, 

 the Whale Fishery, etc." Boston, 1840. 



McFarland, Raymond, "A History of the New England Fisheries." Publica- 

 tions of the University of Pennsylvania, Series in Political Economy and 

 Public Law. Philadelphia, 1911. Devoted largely to the inshore fisheries. 



VII — Narrative and Descriptive Accounts of Whaling 



Life 



Browne, J. Ross, "Etchings of a Whaling Cruise, and History of the Whale 

 Fishery, with Notes on a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar." London, 1846, 

 and New York, 1850. One of the best of the accounts of whaling life 



