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on board who did not tliink of home on that dreadful 

 night, there were not many among us whose thoughts did 

 not turn towards the cheerful fireside of their youth, which 

 at that moment they would have given all they possessed 

 to see once more. But at the very moment, when despair 

 was firml}^ settling upon us, a man from aloft cried out 

 that he could see a light right ahead of the ship. We all 

 looked in that direction, and, in a few minutes, we could 

 plainly perceive it ; in a short time we were close up with 

 it, when, to our great joy, we ioxmd the captain and all 

 the men in the l)oats lying to the leeward of the dead 

 whale, which had in some measure saved them from tlie 

 violence of the sea. 



" After securing the whale alongside, they all came on 

 board, when the sudden end of our poor comrade was 

 spoken of with sorrow from all hands, while their own 

 deliverance served to throw a ray of light amid the 

 gloom." 



As we have trespassed upon our readers wdth one whale 

 story, we are emboldened to give place to what an accredited 

 writer in the " \Yestminster Eeview " relates of an incident 

 in the Greenland whale-fishery : — 



" One serene evening," says he, " in the middle of August 

 1775, Captain Warrens, the master of a Greenland whale- 

 ship, found himself becalmed among an immense number 

 of icebergs, in about seventy-seven degrees of north latitude. 

 On one side and within a mile of his vessel, these were of 



