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Tom Johnson, black, went ashore at Morvee, half dead (ditto) & died at the 



hospital. 

 Reed, mulatto — came home. 

 Blacksmith, ran away at San Francisco. 

 Blackus, little black, ditto. 



Bill Green, after several attempts to run away, came home in the end. 

 The Irishman, ran away, coast of Colombia. 

 Wright, went ashore half dead at the Marquesas. 

 Jack Adams and Jo Portuguese came home. 

 The Old Cook, came home. 

 Haynes, ran away aboard of a Sidney ship. 

 Little Jack, came home. 



Grant, young fellow, went ashore half dead, spitting blood, at Oahu. 

 Murray, went ashore, shunning fight at Rio Janeiro. 

 The Cooper, came home." 



The gloomy record is characteristic of whahng crews. Time 

 has given the business a glamour that would astound the luckless 

 victims of its reality, could they walk to-day the streets of that 

 New England whence they sailed so long ago. 



Negroes, in considerable numbers, have found their way into 

 whaling, and one of them, Paul Cuffee — ''a man of great 

 worth, and who possessed a most noble character" — attracted 

 attention toward the end of the 18th Century by rising to the 

 position of captain and owner. His father was a slave of 

 African birth; his mother was an American Indian, and he was 

 born in 1759 on the island of Cuttyhunk. He went to sea on a 

 whaling voyage when he was sixteen years old, and in 1776, 

 during his third voyage, a British ship captured him and 

 landed him in New York, where for three months he was a 

 prisoner. For two years he worked on a farm, then he and his 

 brother built a boat. In crossing Buzzard's Bay he fell into the 

 hands of pirates who robbed him of boat and cargo, but he 

 built another. In spite of another brush with pirates, he saved 

 a little money, learned enough mathematics to navigate a 

 vessel, and bought a craft of twelve tons. Having married, he 

 farmed again for a while, but presently he bought a vessel of 

 eighteen tons in which he fished on George's Banks. With the 

 profits of this voyage, he bought a vessel of forty-two tons, 

 in which he made a number of successful whaling voyages. In 



