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APPENDIX. 
Extract, May 29, 1821, respecting Captain Manby’s new 
method of taking whales. 
“ Hitherto, owing to the indisposition of the harpooner 
appointed to take charge of Captain Manby’s apparatus 
for killing whales, no opportunity has occurred of applying 
any of the instruments to practice ; it is time, however, 
that I should give some description of the apparatus, for 
the trial of which, Captain Manby, at an advanced period 
of life, (fifty -six) has been induced to forego the enjoyments 
of a peaceful and happy home, to encounter the rigour 
and privation of a Greenland voyage ; and this, not from 
motives of personal emolument, but, with his usual phi- 
lanthropy, with the view of contributing to the success of 
a branch of trade, the highest in the scale of national 
importance, and of diminishing, as far as may be, the 
dangers of the occupation; whatever, therefore, may be 
the fate of his invention, he is entitled to the full praise 
of having employed his property and his ingenuity for the 
promotion of a public benefit, and deserves well of his 
country.” 
“ Captain Manby has invented three or four different pieces 
of apparatus, viz. : 
1st. A hand-harpoon constructed with jointed spring 
barbs, intended to prevent the liability of retraction. 
‘‘ 2d. A gun-harpoon for the same purpose, calculated, 
he conceives, to afford greater precision in direction, to 
take effect at greater distances, and to be more capable 
of retention when it penetrates, than the gun-harpoon at 
present in use. 
3d. A small gun with shells and carcasses for killing 
whales without the use of the lance. 
