(,\M OF WHALES. H5 



CHAPTEK IX. 



EPISODES IN THE FORTUNES OF WHALEMEN. 



" There she lies ! there she lies ! 

 Like an isle on ocean's breast ; 

 ' Where away ?' West south-west, 

 Where the billows meet the skies. 

 Port the helm ! trim the sail ! 

 Let us chase this mighty whale." 



Whaler's Song. 



Gam of Whales Grounding on a Whale's back Captain 

 overboard His narrow escape The Captain's story 

 Accidents by boat-lines Dangerous progress Fruitless 

 perils Whaler's Journal Fatal result The heart under 

 the Pea-jacket. 



THE mortifying event referred to in the last 

 chapter, of loosing our whale by sinking, 

 after all the toil and hazard incurred in its cap- 

 ture, is paralleled only by a like occurrence in 

 the fortunes of another whale ship on these very 

 False Banks, some two or three years ago, which 

 I will give, partly in the words of one who was 

 himself an actor in the scene described, 

 one of the hands in the captain's boat. 



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