“ Leviathan 
W HALING in the Southern Ocean and 
among the placid waters of the Pacific 
Isles may now be counted among the lost arts ; 
and yet well within the memory of many living 
men it flourished and was the main attraction 
that brought many a ship to the Southern Seas. 
And the brave and skilful whalemen of those 
days reaped such golden harvests from their 
dangerous toil, that those people who know not 
of these things would scarce credit the true 
stories that are told of fortunes made by whalers 
in the glorious days of the “thirties,” “forties,” 
and “ fifties.” 
Yet, nowadays, whales are nearly if not quite 
as plentiful as they were then ; but where are 
the whalers ? And where is the once flourishing 
industry, and why is it now non-existent save 
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