CONTENTS 



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THE WHALE 7 



ANCIENT HISTORY OF WHALING 8 



EARLY NEW ENGLAND WHALING 13 



NANTUCKET 16 



NEW BEDFORD 23 



OTHER NEW ENGLAND WHALING PORTS 33 



ABOARD A "BLUBBER HUNTER" 35 



WHALING IMPLEMENTS AND WHALEBOATS 37 



DIFFERENT SPECIES OF WHALES AND THEIR PRODUCTS .... 41 



METHODS OF CAPTURE AND "TRYING OUT" 45 



THE PERILS OF WHALING 51 



THE "CATALPA" EXPEDITION . V . 58 



DECLINE OF WHALING AND THE CAUSES 60 



WHALING OF TO-DAY . 62 



The illustrations used in this brochure are from rare prints in the possession 

 of the Dartmouth Historical Society and the Free Public Library of New Bed- 

 ford, H. S. Hutchinson & Co., Charles H. Taylor, Jr., Roy C. Andrews of the 

 American Museum of Natural History of New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 

 and others. 



"Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, 

 nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of the English enterprise, ever 

 carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to 

 which it has been pushed by this recent People; a People who are still, 

 as it were, but in the. gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone, of 

 manhood." From a speech by Edmund Burke before Parliament in 1775. 



