xlv ILLUSTRATIONS 



The Forecastle of the Whaler Charles W. Morgan, 

 OF New Bedford, Showing the Bunks for the 

 Foremast Hands 126 



From a photograph owned by Whaling Enshrined, Inc., New Bedford. 

 Reproduced from Dow. 



Cutting in a Sperm Whale — Hoisting on the 



Lower Jaw 144 



From a photograph owned by H. S. Hutchinson & Co., New Bedford. 



Cutting in a Sperm Whale — the "Junk" Nearly 



Clear 170 



From a photograph owned by H. S. Hutchinson & Co., New Bedford. 



Trying Out — Showing the Brick Try-Works 



Erected on Deck for Boiling Out the Oil . 174 



From a photograph owned by H. S. Hutchinson & Co., New Bedford. 



Cutting in a Right Whale — Showing the Bonnet 



AND A Blanket Piece 180 



From a photograph owned by H. S. Hutchinson & Co., New Bedford, 



Whaler Ann Alexander, of New Bedford, Attacked 



BY a Whale IN 1850 210 



From a water-color in the possession of the Old Dartmouth Historical 

 Society. Reproduced from Dow. 



Bark Canton, of New Bedford, Built at Baltimore 



IN 1835 210 



Reproduced from Dow. 



Sperm Whaling — "The Conflict" 238 



From a lithograph by Prang and Mayer, Boston, 1859, after a drawing 

 by J. Cole. In the Allan Forbes Collection. Reproduced from Dow. 



Cruising in the Ochotsk Sea — A Page from the 



Log of the Whaler Adeline . . . .252 



From the original log-book, now in the possession of Mr. W. H. Hos- 

 ford, Geneseo, Illinois. 



Sperm Whaling — "The Capture" 278 



From a lithograph by Endicott & Co., New York, 1862, after drawings 

 by A. Van Best and R. S. Gilford, corrected by Benjamin Russell. In 

 the Allan Forbes Collection. Reproduced from Dow. 



"Jagging Wheels," Carved by Whalemen out of 

 THE Jawbone and Teeth of the Sperm Whale, 

 and Used to Crimp Pastry Around the Edge 

 of a Pie 304 



From a photograph of jagging wheels in the Frank Wood Collection. 

 Reproduced from Dow. 



