A few stloko init (lit- liUle nail .salrl^ a\\a\ 1. oul 

 the ship. This pliotograph shows the mast and sail, two 

 of the keen toggle irons resting on the gunwale, and the 

 manila whale line which passes ont through a notch in 

 the bow. The men follow directions signaled to them 

 by tlie captain 



From his lofty perch at the mastliead, the 

 captain can see movements of the whales 

 quite invisible to the harpooners, and by a 

 system of signals with waifs and the clews 

 of the square sails, he directs the course of 

 the boats 



A chain jiassed through a starl)oard hawse pipe is fastened around tlic whah's "sniall." ami wlien 

 drawn in snugly, the victim lies with his flukes near the bow and his head stretching along past the 

 waist. The operations of bringing a whale alongside and of making it fast are called sweeping and fluking. 

 The boat hanging on the forward davits Is the writer's dory, not part of the regular wlialiug (■(luipment of 

 the brig 



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