158 The Story of the New England Whalers 



of being set down in the ship's common log. " 

 (Moby Dick.) A list of more than four hundred 

 islands which were discovered in the Pacific 

 by American whalers is found in the public 

 document quoted above. But "whale, strong- 

 timbered craft and swift clipper boat are gone. 

 . . . We have lost our natural place upon the 

 seas. . . . No one can contemplate these achieve- 

 ments and this decay without sadness." (Weeden.) 



