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efforts, until it is killed ; and then, as speedily as 

 may be,, of availing themselves of the intimation 

 they may possess relative to the position of the ship, 

 for the pxirpose of rejoining her. But as their know- 

 ledge of tihe direction of their movements generally 

 depends on the wind, unless they happen to be pro- 

 vided with a compass, and have attentively marked 

 their route by its indications, any change in the di- 

 rection of the wind, must be attended with serious 

 consequences. 



To describe this subject fully, and to enter into 

 the detail of the various modes which ingenuity 

 may adopt for maintaining the proximity of a ship 

 with her boats, and the safety of the latter when 

 engaged in the fishery during the obscurity of a fog, 

 would be tedious, and in a work of this nature su- 

 perfiiious; I shall therefore proceed with another 

 branch of my subject. But before 1 enter upon the 

 subsequent operations of the whalers connected with 

 a successful fishery, I shall give a few examples of re- 

 markable strength, activity, or other peculiarity 

 in the behaviour of whales after they have been 

 struck ; being a few of the curious circumstances 

 connected with the fishery which I have myself 

 observed, or have received from unquestionable au- 

 thority. 



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