HISTORIC MUTINEERS. 99 



them of mercantile life and educational facilities, 

 and the constant broadening and deepening of 

 life in all its forms. The establishment on the 

 Island of a mission college in 1866, was of the 

 greatest importance to the people. 



Being at one time near Savage Island in a calm 

 and entirely smooth sea, a large sperm whale 

 hove in sight, coming towards the ship. After 

 spouting, or breathing, some fifty or sixty times, 

 it turned flukes and went down. The boats were 

 immediately lowered and placed, by direction of 

 the captain, when the whale spouted, having been 

 down nearly one hour. He was nearest the 

 captain's boat, who, with paddle and with little 

 noise, slipped alongside the big fellow. When 

 the boat-steerer threw his harpoons, only one of 

 them entered the whale. He, not liking the 

 sensation, at once sounded, taking out nearly two 

 hundred and fifty fathoms of line. In the mean- 

 time, the other boats were pulling for dear life to 

 the assistance of the captain, who was now 

 hauling in the two hundred and fifty fathoms of 

 line. As the chief mate's boat drew near, the 

 whale having broke water and for the time being 

 very quiet, the captain called out that he had but 

 one iron in and for us to be quick and get fast. 

 Now the boat is being rushed square off and on 



