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bargain, and give the man the forty dollars agreed upon. 



Mr. Norville seemed quite happy at escaping from the E 



with his life, and says that he would rather trust to the 



tender mercies of the cannibals than to Captain W- . 



He seems to be an educated man, and expresses himself well 

 for one so much out of the practice of his native language. 

 Lat. 31° 12' N"., long. 173° 45' E. 



July 12. While washing deck, sperm-whales were raised 

 at 7 A.M. We lowered, and took two, of about twenty bar- 

 rels each — very small for the Japan ground. We hove them 

 in before dark. 



Aug. 3. In the early morning we lowered and fastened to 

 three whales ; but the two mates lost theirs — the iron draw- 

 ing in one, and the line parting in the other. Our whale 

 lifted us twice with his flukes without disabling us, and 

 sti'ove to breach into the boat, but a quick movement of the 

 boat brought his fall alongside. Nobody hurt.. 



Just before sunset we raised another school of sperm- 

 whales ; lowered, but night broke up the chase. We were 

 spoken by the Emily Morgan, of New Bedford, Captain 

 Wray, thirty -seven months out, with eleven hundred and 

 fifty barrels of oil. We hailed eleven hundred barrels. To- 

 day's whale is placed at thirty barrels. 



Aug. 6. Weather somewhat squally ; saw a sail to leeward 

 of us. At 1 P.M. noticed that two sails to windward of us 

 had squared away, and were coming down before the wind. 

 Suspecting that they were following whales, we tacked ship 

 and beat up, keeping a sharp lookout. We soon raised 

 whales coming to leeward ; lowered two boats, and pulled up. 

 to take our chance with six boats coming down under sail. 

 The whales went down, however, and passed under our boats. 

 We then lowered two more boats. The captain's boat went 

 on, and we got two irons in well under the hump of one. The 

 third mate joined us, and also fastened. As he was going 



