164 THE WHALE AND 



The other Side. A moving Incident. 



CHAPTER XL 



AUTHENTIC TRAGEDIES AND PERILS OF THE WHAL- 

 ING 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. 



TN 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 equally 

 common. A writer in the London Quarterly, 

 a few years ago, described an adventure in the 

 pursuit of a whale, which, given here for sub- 

 stance with some additions, will be read with 

 deep interest by all who are anywise familiar 



