CONTENTS 



CHAPTER *AGK 



I. SAMUEL MULFORD, ALONGSHORE WHALER . I 



II. TOLD OF THE RED INDIAN WHALERS . . 1 8 



III. EARLY DAYS ON NANTUCKET . . . 38 



IV. THE MINOR COLONIAL PORTS . . 73 

 V. NANTUCKET IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION 85 



VI. A LONG PERIOD OF DEPRESSION ... 97 



VII. ADVENTURES OF THE EXPLORERS . . .123 



VIII. WHALES AS THE WHALERS KNEW THEM . . 159 



IX. HARPOONS, LANCES, GUNS, AND BOATS . . 203 



X. SKETCHES AFLOAT WITH THE WHALERS . . 244 



XI. WORK OF THE FIGHTING WHALES . . . 286 



XII. WHALING AS A BUSINESS ENTERPRISE . .312 



XIII. THE MUTINEERS AND SLAVERS . . ,340 



XIV. TALES OF WHALERS IN THE CIVIL WAR . 365 

 XV. IN THE LATER DAYS . . . . .394 



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