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Page 120
... boat into the water , and went a " gamming , " as it is termed , on board the other schooner . Each of these little vessels was well provided with boats , and those of the description in common use among whalers . A whale - boat differs ...
... boat into the water , and went a " gamming , " as it is termed , on board the other schooner . Each of these little vessels was well provided with boats , and those of the description in common use among whalers . A whale - boat differs ...
Page 163
... boat , as became his station and very responsible duties . Stimson , the oldest and the best seaman in the schooner , he who had admonished his young commander on the sub- ject of the gratitude due to the Deity , acted as the master's boat ...
... boat , as became his station and very responsible duties . Stimson , the oldest and the best seaman in the schooner , he who had admonished his young commander on the sub- ject of the gratitude due to the Deity , acted as the master's boat ...
Page 166
... boats , without any regard to the danger of approach- ing the whale . A very few minutes sufficed to bring the parties quite in a line with the flukes , Gardiner's boat coming up on the larboard or left - hand side of the animal , where ...
... boats , without any regard to the danger of approach- ing the whale . A very few minutes sufficed to bring the parties quite in a line with the flukes , Gardiner's boat coming up on the larboard or left - hand side of the animal , where ...
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