The Whaleman's Adventures in the Southern OceanDarton & Hodge, 1862 - 304 страница |
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... vessels , afford , perhaps , the most remark- able instance on record of what commerce can do against unyielding laws of Nature , and over obstructions which it would seem impossible to surmount . But how soon does Nature , if ever ...
... vessels , afford , perhaps , the most remark- able instance on record of what commerce can do against unyielding laws of Nature , and over obstructions which it would seem impossible to surmount . But how soon does Nature , if ever ...
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... vessels from Cape Cod and Nantucket to " whale out in the deep for sperm whales . " These gradually crept along , emboldened by experience , north to the Labradors and south to the Bahamas , where New Providence became famous as a whale ...
... vessels from Cape Cod and Nantucket to " whale out in the deep for sperm whales . " These gradually crept along , emboldened by experience , north to the Labradors and south to the Bahamas , where New Providence became famous as a whale ...
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... vessels , of an aggregate burden of twenty - seven thousand eight hundred and forty - six tons . The quantity of oil brought into Nantucket yearly , at the time of the breaking out of the Revolutionary war was thirty thousand barrels ...
... vessels , of an aggregate burden of twenty - seven thousand eight hundred and forty - six tons . The quantity of oil brought into Nantucket yearly , at the time of the breaking out of the Revolutionary war was thirty thousand barrels ...
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... vessels were either captured or lost at sea , and great numbers of her seamen perished . In 1788 Great Britain had the honour of opening the Pacific to the sperm whale fishery , through the Amelia , Captain Shields , fitted out at vast ...
... vessels were either captured or lost at sea , and great numbers of her seamen perished . In 1788 Great Britain had the honour of opening the Pacific to the sperm whale fishery , through the Amelia , Captain Shields , fitted out at vast ...
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... Value of the annual import of oil and whale- bone in a crude state 7,000,000 dols . , increased by manufacturing to 9,000,000 dols . The number of vessels in the American whale fishery , the last 8 NEW ENGLAND WHALE FISHERY .
... Value of the annual import of oil and whale- bone in a crude state 7,000,000 dols . , increased by manufacturing to 9,000,000 dols . The number of vessels in the American whale fishery , the last 8 NEW ENGLAND WHALE FISHERY .
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