WHALERS AND WHALING. 



a cruise of nearly three years in the Arctic Ocean, where she took 

 sixty-nine whales. The voyage was a most profitable one, and the 

 owners of the vessel expect to clear about one hundred thousand dol- 

 lars. Each seaman's lay amounts to a thousand dollars or more, it is 

 thought. She brought about one hundred thousand pounds of whale- 

 bone. The record of her trip shows that the whaleman's life is as full 

 of danger and adventure today as it ever was. One of her crew was 

 frozen to death while hunting, and the sailor who accompanied him 

 had both feet so badly frost bitten that they had to be amputated. 

 The operation was successfully performed by the Captain of another 

 whaler, who offered his services as an amateur surgeon, and did his 

 best with the few crude instruments at hand. 



New Bedford has long ago invested the spoils of her old whalers 

 in big cotton and yarn mills, and become a prosperous manufacturing 

 city, but now and then one comes across a suggestion of the days 



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