WHALERS AND WHALING. 



body has been able to find or invent anything to take its place, so the 

 whalemen still make three year voyages around Cape Horn and up to 

 the frozen Arctic Seas, risking their lives for the sake of the ladies who 

 would never look so slim-waisted and so trim were it not for their cour- 

 age and endurance. 



When I arrived at New Bedford the other day, two Whalers had 

 just come in. The Canton, from Hudson Bay where she spent a year 

 and a half, and had all her Copper sheathing torn off by the ice she 

 cut her way through, and the "James Arnold," from a voyage of two 

 years and a half around Cape Horn. This last one is a famous old 

 Whaler, a hero of many voyages, and is known as a " Friday Ship," 

 because, in defiance of time honored superstition, she was launched on 

 Friday, started on her first voyage on Friday, and completed her record 

 by capturing her first whale on the same unlucky day. 



A few days later, a bark came sailing up Buzzards Bay, and 



