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order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to India, though they 
failed of their main object, laid open the haunts of the whale.” 
McCulloch’s Commercial Dictionary. 
“These things are reciprocal; the ball rebounds, only to bound forward 
again; for now in laying open the haunts of the whale, the whalemen seem 
to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West 
Passage.” From “Something” unpublished . 
“It is impossible to meet a whale ship on the ocean without being struck 
by her near appearance. The vessel under short sail, with lookouts at the 
mastheads, eagerly scanning the wide expanse around them, has a totally 
different air from those engaged in a regular voyage. 
Currents and Whaling. U. S. Ex. Ex. 
“Pedestrians in the vicinity of London and elsewhere may recollect hav- 
ing seen large curved bones set upright in the earth, either to form arches 
over gateways, or entrances to alcoves, and they may perhaps have been 
told that these were the ribs of whales.” 
Tales of a Whale Voyager to the Arctic Ocean. 
“It was not till the boats returned from the pursuit of these whales, that 
the whites saw their ship in bloody possession of the savages enrolled among 
the crew.” 
Newspaper Account of the Taking and Retaking 
of the Whale Ship “Hobomack.” 
“It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels 
(American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” 
Cruise in a Whale Boat. 
“Suddenly a mighty mass emerged from the water, and shot up per- 
pendicularly into the air. It was the whale.” 
Miriam Coffin , or the Whale Fisherman. 
“The Whale is harpooned, to be sure; but bethink you, how you would 
manage a powerful unbroken colt, with the mere appliance of a rope tied to 
the root of his tail.” 
A Chapter on Whaling in Ribs and Trucks. 
