The Cruise of the Cachalot [1]
get loose--In trouble--an uncomfortable situation--No Pity-Only one whale--Rigging the "cutting-stage"--Securing the whale alongside.
CHAPTER VI - "DIRTY WORK FOR CLEAN MONEY" Goliath in trouble--Commence "cutting-in"--A heavy head-- A tank of spermaceti--Decks running with oil--A "Patent" mincing-machine--Extensive cooking--Dangerous work-- Three tuns of oil--A horrible mess--A thin-skinned monster --A fine mouth of teeth.
CHAPTER VII - GETTING SOUTHWARD Captain Slocum's amenities--Expensive beer--St. Paul's Rocks-- "Bonito"--"Showery" weather--Waterspouts--Calms-- A friendly finback--A disquisition on whales by Mistah Jones--Flying-fishing.
CHAPTER VIII - ABNER'S WHALE Abner in luck--A big "fish" at last--A feat of endurance-- A fighting whale--The sperm whale's food--Ambergris --A good reception--Hard labour--Abner's reward-- "Scrimshaw".
CHAPTER IX - OUR FIRST CALLING-PLACE A forced march--Tristan d'Acunha--Visitors--Fresh provisions --A warm welcome--Goliath's turn--a feathered host-- Good gear--A rough time--Creeping north--Uncertainty-- "Rule of thumb"--navigation--The Mozambique Channel.
CHAPTER X - A VISIT TO SOME STRANGE PLACES Tropical thunderstorms--A "record" day's fishing--Cetacean frivolities--Mistah Jones moralizes--A snug harbour-- Wooding and watering--Catching a turtle--Catching a "Tartar"--A violent death--A crooked jaw--Aldabra Island --Primeval inhabitants--A strange steed--"Pirate" birds-- Good eggs--Green cocoa-nuts--More turtle--A school of "kogia".
CHAPTER XI - ROUND THE COCOS AND SEYCHELLES We encounter a "cyclone"--A tremendous gust--a foundering ship--To anchor for repairs--The Cocos--Repairing damages --Around the Seychelles--A "milk" sea--A derelict prahu --A ghastly freight--A stagnant sea.
CHAPTER XII - WHICH TREATS OF THE KRAKEN "Eyes and no eyes" at sea--Of big mollusca--The origin of sea- serpent stories--Rediscovery of the "Kraken"--A conflict of monsters--"The insatiable nightmares of the sea"-- Spermaceti running to waste--The East Indian maze
CHAPTER XIII - OFF TO THE JAPAN GROUNDS A whale off Hong Kong--The skipper and his "'bomb-gun"-- Injury to the captain--Unwelcome visitors--The heathen Chinee--We get safe off--"Death of Portagee Jim"--The Funeral--The Coast of Japan--Port Lloyd--Meeting of whale-ships.
CHAPTER XIV - LIBERTY DAY--AND AFTER Liberty day--I foregather with a "beach-comber"--A big fight --Goliath on the war-path--A court-martial--Wholesale flogging--a miserable crowd--Quite a fleet of whale-ships --I "raise" a sperm whale--Severe competition--An unfortunate stroke--The skipper distinguishes himself.
CHAPTER XV - WHICH COMES UNCOMFORTABLY NEAR BEING THE LAST I come to grief--Emulating Jonah--Sharing a flurry--A long spell of sick-leave--The whale's "sixth sense"--Off to the Kuriles--Prepare for "bowhead" fishing--The Sea of Okhotsk--Abundant salmon--The "daintiness" of seamen.
CHAPTER XVI - "BOWHEAD" FISHING Difference between whales--Popular ideas exploded--The gentle mysticetus--Very tame work--Fond of tongue--Goliath confides in me--An awful affair--Captain Slocum's death-- "Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds"--I am promoted.
CHAPTER XVII - VISIT TO HONOLULU Towards Honolulu--Missionaries and their critics--The happy Kanaka--Honolulu--A pleasant holiday.
CHAPTER XVIII - ON THE "LINE" GROUNDS I get my opportunity--A new harpooner--Feats under the skipper's eye--Two whales on one line--Compliments Heavy towage--A grand haul.
CHAPTER XIX - EDGING SOUTHWARD Monotony--A school of blackfish--A boat ripped in half--A multitude of sharks--A curious backbone--Christmas Day-- A novel Christmas dinner--A find of ambergris.
CHAPTER XX - "HUMPBACKING" AT VAU VAU "Gamming" again--a Whitechapel rover--arrive at Vau Vau --Valuable friends--a Sunday ashore--"Hollingside"-- The natives at church--Full-dress--Very "mishnally"-- Idyllic cruising--Wonderful mother-love--A mighty feast.
CHAPTER XXI - PROGRESS OF THE "HUMPBACK" SEASON A fruitless chase--Placid times--a stirring adventure--a vast cave--Unforeseen
CHAPTER VI - "DIRTY WORK FOR CLEAN MONEY" Goliath in trouble--Commence "cutting-in"--A heavy head-- A tank of spermaceti--Decks running with oil--A "Patent" mincing-machine--Extensive cooking--Dangerous work-- Three tuns of oil--A horrible mess--A thin-skinned monster --A fine mouth of teeth.
CHAPTER VII - GETTING SOUTHWARD Captain Slocum's amenities--Expensive beer--St. Paul's Rocks-- "Bonito"--"Showery" weather--Waterspouts--Calms-- A friendly finback--A disquisition on whales by Mistah Jones--Flying-fishing.
CHAPTER VIII - ABNER'S WHALE Abner in luck--A big "fish" at last--A feat of endurance-- A fighting whale--The sperm whale's food--Ambergris --A good reception--Hard labour--Abner's reward-- "Scrimshaw".
CHAPTER IX - OUR FIRST CALLING-PLACE A forced march--Tristan d'Acunha--Visitors--Fresh provisions --A warm welcome--Goliath's turn--a feathered host-- Good gear--A rough time--Creeping north--Uncertainty-- "Rule of thumb"--navigation--The Mozambique Channel.
CHAPTER X - A VISIT TO SOME STRANGE PLACES Tropical thunderstorms--A "record" day's fishing--Cetacean frivolities--Mistah Jones moralizes--A snug harbour-- Wooding and watering--Catching a turtle--Catching a "Tartar"--A violent death--A crooked jaw--Aldabra Island --Primeval inhabitants--A strange steed--"Pirate" birds-- Good eggs--Green cocoa-nuts--More turtle--A school of "kogia".
CHAPTER XI - ROUND THE COCOS AND SEYCHELLES We encounter a "cyclone"--A tremendous gust--a foundering ship--To anchor for repairs--The Cocos--Repairing damages --Around the Seychelles--A "milk" sea--A derelict prahu --A ghastly freight--A stagnant sea.
CHAPTER XII - WHICH TREATS OF THE KRAKEN "Eyes and no eyes" at sea--Of big mollusca--The origin of sea- serpent stories--Rediscovery of the "Kraken"--A conflict of monsters--"The insatiable nightmares of the sea"-- Spermaceti running to waste--The East Indian maze
CHAPTER XIII - OFF TO THE JAPAN GROUNDS A whale off Hong Kong--The skipper and his "'bomb-gun"-- Injury to the captain--Unwelcome visitors--The heathen Chinee--We get safe off--"Death of Portagee Jim"--The Funeral--The Coast of Japan--Port Lloyd--Meeting of whale-ships.
CHAPTER XIV - LIBERTY DAY--AND AFTER Liberty day--I foregather with a "beach-comber"--A big fight --Goliath on the war-path--A court-martial--Wholesale flogging--a miserable crowd--Quite a fleet of whale-ships --I "raise" a sperm whale--Severe competition--An unfortunate stroke--The skipper distinguishes himself.
CHAPTER XV - WHICH COMES UNCOMFORTABLY NEAR BEING THE LAST I come to grief--Emulating Jonah--Sharing a flurry--A long spell of sick-leave--The whale's "sixth sense"--Off to the Kuriles--Prepare for "bowhead" fishing--The Sea of Okhotsk--Abundant salmon--The "daintiness" of seamen.
CHAPTER XVI - "BOWHEAD" FISHING Difference between whales--Popular ideas exploded--The gentle mysticetus--Very tame work--Fond of tongue--Goliath confides in me--An awful affair--Captain Slocum's death-- "Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds"--I am promoted.
CHAPTER XVII - VISIT TO HONOLULU Towards Honolulu--Missionaries and their critics--The happy Kanaka--Honolulu--A pleasant holiday.
CHAPTER XVIII - ON THE "LINE" GROUNDS I get my opportunity--A new harpooner--Feats under the skipper's eye--Two whales on one line--Compliments Heavy towage--A grand haul.
CHAPTER XIX - EDGING SOUTHWARD Monotony--A school of blackfish--A boat ripped in half--A multitude of sharks--A curious backbone--Christmas Day-- A novel Christmas dinner--A find of ambergris.
CHAPTER XX - "HUMPBACKING" AT VAU VAU "Gamming" again--a Whitechapel rover--arrive at Vau Vau --Valuable friends--a Sunday ashore--"Hollingside"-- The natives at church--Full-dress--Very "mishnally"-- Idyllic cruising--Wonderful mother-love--A mighty feast.
CHAPTER XXI - PROGRESS OF THE "HUMPBACK" SEASON A fruitless chase--Placid times--a stirring adventure--a vast cave--Unforeseen