CONTENTS. 



Making a Master 1 



The Fatted Calf ....... 7 



That Great Leviathan ...... 32 



Marquesas Islands . . . . . . .51 



Beach Combers ....... 55 



Bringing Mr. Townsend Back Again ... 60 



A Glimpse of Samoa 76 



Watered Bum at Otaheite . . . . .81 



Bight Whales ........ 87 



Historic Mutineers ...... 89 



Budder Simpson, Myself and the Personage . 102 

 Whaleland and its Customs . . . .122 



The Frozen North ....... 131 



The Cast-Away . . . . . . .136 



The Whaleman Who Went on the Stage . .159 

 "Whales has Feelin's" ..... 168 



The Gam . . .182 



Augustine Bay ....... 195 



The Albatross 205 



The Captain 228 



A Typical Whaleman 239 



