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  "Pedestrians in the vicinity of London and elsewhere may recollect

having 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

perpendicularly into the air. It was the while."

  --MIRIAM COFFIN OR THE WHALE FISHERMAN.