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CHAPTEK XL 



AUTHENTIC TRAGEDIES AND PERILS OF THE 

 WHALING SERVICE. 



" At length his comrades, who before 

 Had heard his voice in every blast, 

 Could catch the sound no more. 

 For then, by toil subdued, he drank 

 The stifling wave, and then he sank. 

 And he, they knew, nor ship nor shore, 

 Whate'er they did, should visit more." 



Cowper's " Castaway.' 



A moving incident Whale harpooned Boats dragged far 

 away Boats out of sight A man overboard Seaman lost 

 Search for missing boats Joy out of Despair Story of 

 Captain Warrens The ancient mariners. 



IN this Daguerreotype gallery of Life and Ad- 

 ventures in a Whale Ship, it is but fair that 

 our late experience of the bright side of whale- 

 men's fortune, in the safe capture and stowing 

 down of a noble hundred -barrel spermaceti, as 

 told in the last chapter, should be set off by 

 incidents of another character that are by no 

 means uncommon. A writer in the London 



