350 FISHEEIES OF THE UNITED STATES. [80] 



Cooper's large inshave. 



Socket and shank, iron. Ovate frame with sharp cutting-edge. 

 Length, 19| inches. New London, Connecticut, 1882. 57071, 

 Gift of C. A. Williams & Co. 



Cooper's inshave. 



Handle, wood; blade, steel, with spur for fastening to handle. No 

 ferule. Old. Length, 6| inches. New London, Connecticut, 

 1882. 57073. Gift of C. A. Williams & Co. 



Cooper's inshave. 



Handle, wood; frame, acute ovate, with forward cutting-edge riv- 

 eted to handle. Length, 7 inches. New Bedford, Massachu- 

 setts, 1882. 57075. Gift of Thomas Knowles & Co. An old 

 inshave used for many years on a whaling- vessel. 



LOGS OF WHALING-VESSELS. 

 Logs. 



Journals containing daily entries of the vessels' routine; remarks 

 upon the weather, sky, wind, localities, and whaling-grounds 

 visited, including latitudes and longitudes, the number of 

 whales captured, amount of oil boiled out and stowed down, 

 and other matters of importance which tend, in the aggregate, 

 to make a true register of the voyages. The mates usually 

 keep the logs, which are, in many cases, illustrated with cuts 

 of whales and profiles of the islands passed or visited during 

 the voyage. A figure of a sperm-whale, for example, stamped 

 upon the page of a journal with the initials "L. B." and the 

 figures "40," indicates that upon the day of that entry a sperm- 

 whale, yielding 40 barrels of oil, was captured by the larboard 

 boat. The flulces of a whale in a vertical position indicate that 

 whales were seen but not captured. Half of a whale indicates 

 that the vessel "mated," that is, entered into an agreement 

 with another vessel to jointly capture the whale, and that she 

 secured one-half of the prize. The "twenty-four hours" com- 

 mences at 12 o'clock at night and ends at 12 midnight. For- 

 merly the English sea-journals' day, or twenty-four hours, " used 

 to terminate at noon, because the ship's position is then gen- 

 erally determined by observation; but the shore account of time 

 is now adopted afloat."* 



Whaleman's log. 



Journal of bark Peri, Capt. E. Bussell. Sailed Friday, June 29, 

 1854, from New Bedford, Massachusetts, for the Indian Ocean 

 on a sperm-whaling voyage, and returned May 26, 1857. Ed- 

 gartown, Massachusetts, 1882. 56865. Gift of John W. Nor- 

 ton. 



* Admiral W. H. Smyth. 



