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after dark we got aboard of the vessel and went into the harbor. There we lay about three days. 

 The next good spell of weather we went out again. We beat to the northward, when we saw 

 something black stretched along out there. "We went to it and found it was this whale. She had 

 been dead four days, and had swelled up so much that she was as high as the brig's rail. We 

 made fast to her and secured her. We ran down by the bend of the island, and before morning 

 we were at anchor in smooth water. The captain said, " If we cut this whale, as soon as we cut 

 into the case the oil will run out. The only way we can do is to scuttle the head on the broad 

 side and then get in there and dip it out." We did so, and bailed out ten barrels of liquid oil. It 

 was limpid and clear. Then we undertook to get off the blubber. This was a very fat whale, and 

 when we hooked on to hoist up the blubber the oil would come down faster than any rain-storm I 

 ever saw. We blocked up the scuppers as well as we could and dipped two or three barrels oif the 

 deck. After stripping it, we let the carcass go. We staid until the 10th of February. We then 

 ran down to Buena Vista. Then we went to Brava, southwest of the Cape de Verde Islands, and 

 then bore off to the West Indies and went to Martinique. There we found a brig that belonged 

 to New Bedford, Captain Phillips. He was captain when there was no whale in sight, but Captain 

 Warren was captain when there were whales. When we got to Martinique we saw some whales. 

 We lowered a boat and went out and struck a whale — a humpback — and finally killed it and took 

 it alongside the vessel and cut her in. After we had cut up the whale we went and anchored in 

 one of the coves between Saint Pierre and Port Royal, and there we lay and tried it out. That 

 whale gave us five barrels apiece. Then we started for home. On our voyage we had fair weather 

 and were twenty days from Martinique to Pro vincetown, arriving on the 27th day of March. We 

 sailed the 3d of April the year before. My share was $20. I wanted to go whaling again, but 

 father said, "You can't afford to go," and that wound up my whaling. 



The whalers all broke down here then. There was one, Captain Soper, master of the Ardent, 

 who went the next year and coming home he was capsized in a hurricane and four of the crew were 

 washed off. The remainder staid on the brig, and five, after remaining on the wreck twenty-six 

 days, were taken off alive and carried to England. The mate died, but Captain Soper and three 

 men got home. All have since died except one, who is in Fernandina, Fla. 



Then I had to go to sea somewhere, and I shipped in the schooner Favorite again, but not with 

 the same captain. They generally hire as cheap as they can. Sometimes the parties who hire 

 crews give them their boots. I got $12 a month and one boot. She was a schooner of 80 tons, 

 Reuben Ryder, master. I think we carried 1G0 hogsheads of salt, and that multiplied by eight 

 will give the bushels. We sailed from home about the middle of May. We proceeded first to the 

 northern coast of Newfoundland and made a stop at the Bay of Islands, where we commenced 

 fishing with clam bait. We carried the clams with us. You see it was ahead of the capelin school. 

 After fishing a week or ten days we then proceeded northward and arrived at Indian Harbor, the 

 other side of Grosswater Bay. Soon after we arrived, the capelin came upon the coast, and we 

 wet nearly all our salt during the capelin school, which lasted some three weeks. Having some- 

 salt left we proceeded homeward, stopping at the Straits of Belle Isle at a place called Henley's 

 Islands. The capelin were gone and we were compelled to fish with sand eels or lants (Ammodytes). 

 There we finished all our salt but a few bushels, left the coast, and proceeded on our voyage home- 

 ward. We arrived home about the 20th of September from the voyage, and the fish were brought 

 home in a green state. That ended my voyage. I had earned my $12 a month and a boot, and 

 got my discharge. Then I commenced in the shore fisheries, fishing for dogfish and mackerel in 

 the fall and in the winter fishing for cod. That completed 1823. 



After fishing through the winter and spring I shipped again to go another new voyage in the 



