72 The Story of the New England Whalers 



the voyages and lives of these homely men. These 

 common folk, in their contest with the monsters 

 of the deep, easily paralleled the old life of viking 

 and sea rover." (Weeden's Economic and Social 

 History of New England.} 



But the evil days of the War of the Revolution 

 were now at hand. 



