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NEW BEDFORD

LIFE AND ADVENTURE
IN
THE SOUTH PACIFIC.

BY

A ROVING PRINTER.

NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.
1861.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,
In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

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PREFACE.

The present volume lays no claim to literary merit. Two young men, led to engage in the whale-fisheries, and spending five years in the employment, have compiled from their log-books and their recollection a plain, unvarnished narrative of this period. The work is placed before the public as an account of localities few have visited, and the detail of an employment of which little is generally known. The chief effort in the way of style has been to give vivid descriptions, and make the reader the companion of the traveler. Aside from the information of the volume, it is enlivened by life on shipboard.

In these days of many books, in which voyages have no small representation, it may seem almost presumptuous to put forth another tale of travel. Yet every traveler has his own experiences; and the sailors who offer here their narrative for the landsmans inspection believe that their yarn is not an old one, and they have some confidence that the reader will not say it is a dull one.

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CONTENTS.

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New Bedford.Fitting out a Whaler.Shipping A Crew.Green Hands.Shippers.Outfitters.A Sailors Wardrobe.All Hands on board.Good-by to Yankee Land.The Pilot taking leave.The last Farewell.Captains Speech.Choosing Watches.The Modus Operandi of Ships Watches.Sea-sickness.	Page 13
Sick of the Sea.Description of the Boats and Whaling Apparatus.Boat-headers.Boat-steerers.Mastheads.The first Whale.There she blows!All hands excited.Lowering the Boats.Pull, every man of you.A Fishermans Luck.Whales again.Cape Verd Islands.St. Antonio.St. Jago.Fogo, the Island of Fire.Going ashore.A noisy Crowd.Tom and the Portugee Donkey.Manuel.Now for Cape Horn.
Our Captain.Officers.Boat-steerers.Foremast Hands.Jo Bob.Sailors Fare.The Cask of Pies.Mackey.Lawrence asleep.
Crossing the Equator.Barney looking for the Line.Spoke Ship Java.Spoke Ship Ontario, homeward bound.Writing Letters Home under Difficulties.Sperm Whales again.A Fast Boat.The Red Flag.The Flurry.The Fluke-chain passed.
Description of the Sperm Whale.Described externally.Difference between the Sperm and Right Whale.
Cutting in.
Trying out.Stowing down.Cleaning up.Gale off the River De la Plata.Thunder and Lightning.Narrow Escape of the Ship.
Preparing for Cape Horn.Head Winds.Staten Land.Cape Horn.Heavy Gale.Porpoises and Albatross.Mackey and the Third Mate.Captured a Sperm Whale.Preparing for Port.The Anchor down.
Talcahuana.Its Streets.Public Buildings.Market.Calaboose.The Harbor.Churches.Paulparees.Inhabitants.Manners and Customs.Getting off Water.Mackey again in Trouble.In the Calaboose.Californians.Climate and Products of Chili.Horseback Riding.Spanish Wake.Desertion.American Consul.Mackeys Oration.Swimming ashore.Departure.
Cruising.Boats-crew Watches.Deserters by wholesale.A large Reward.Public Auction.Juan Fernandez.Peaches.Robinson Crusoes Cave.Fishing.Ship Java.Masa Fuero.St. Felix.St. Ambrose.San Lorenzo.Callao.A Railroad.
Payta.Its Appearance.Inhabitants.Shipped three Spaniards.Gamming.Exchanged Boat-steerers.Gloomy Forebodings.Whales again.Stove Boat.Manuel overboard.No Sunday off Soundings.Mackey and the Mate.Star-gazing.Reflections.A County Fair.Lawrence in Trouble.
Marquesas Islands.Dominica.Its Appearance.Visitors.Tattooing.The Chief.His costly Dress.Delivers his Papers.A Recommend.Society Islands.Roratongo.Its Appearance.New York.New Bedford.Too many Friends.The universal Remedy.Fruit.A thieving Set.Missionaries.Petty Tyrannies practiced.Rev. John Williams.His Death.The staple Commodity.The Desire for Sea.Queen and Government.Desertion.General Losses.Jo Bobs Choice.A merry Time.
Making Passage to King Mill Group.Fourth of July.Byrons Island.Perote Island.Drummonds Island.Sydenhams Island.Visit from the Natives.Their Canoes.Themselves.Trade.Dittoes.Taking of the Triton.A treacherous Portuguese.A bloody Massacre.A just Retribution.The Kanakas Stratagem.The Natives frightened.Prisoners ashore.A young Hero.Hostages.The Prisoners released.Proceed to the Sandwich Islands.Hendervilles Island.Woodles Island.Natives again.Teka moi moi.Young Cocoanuts.Decidedly Jewish.Easily satisfied.Description of Natives.The Females.A large Fleet.Comparisons.Simpsons Island.Ship Narragansett.Stove Boat.Fishermans Luck.Experiments in Mesmerism.Somebody sold.
Pitts Island.Knox and Charlottes Islands.Base Conduct.Thieving.Jack and Manuel.Almost a dead Nigger.Bark Belle.Ship Boy.Wreck of the Flying Fox.Plundered by the Natives.Halls Island.Desertion.My Man Friday.A wet Berth again.Ship Hector.Anxiety for Letters.A Canoe in distress.A heart-rending Sight.Gratitude of the Natives.Pleasant Island.Its Natives.Murder of white Men.Brig Inga.Thieves again.Search-warrant issued.Property found, Culprit tried and punished.A heavy Squall.Strongs Island.
Strongs Island.King.Canker.Dress.Chiefs.Description of the Island.Large Island.Small Island.Productions.Wild Game.Canals.Stone Walls.Who built them?Ruins.Suppositions.A Rebellion.Customs.Queen.Princes and Princesses.Sekane.Csar.Natives.Females.Strongs Island Trowsers.Employments.Houses.Marriages.Sports.Canoes.Carva.Banyan-tree.Religion.Blueskin.Traditions.Priests.Rites and Ceremonies.Funeral Ceremonies.Rotumah Tom.Food of the Natives.Blueskin and his Procession.Fridays Opinion.The Feast.Very good, but think we wont indulge.Choose our Hotel.An unpleasant Surprise.Planter.Mutiny and its Consequences.Desertion.One kind of Navigation.A Stroll to Large Island.Friday and the Taboo.Incidents in Port.Weighed Anchor.Mary Frazier.Death and Burial of Mr. S.A few random Thoughts.
A happy New-year to all.Rather poor Luck.Pitts Island again.Description.Natives.King.Religious Belief.Funeral Ceremonies.Jentsh.Houses.Costume.Food.Language.Weapons of War.Mode of Warfare.Return to Strongs Island.Improvements.Singing-school.The Royal Family to Dinner.Cankers Guilt.Poisoned Carva.Return to our Hotel.Our Suspicions strengthened.Stop Thief!Gas.New Zealand Dance.Grand Feast.Tall Dancing.Cheers by the Audience.Go it, Csar!Grand Boat-race.The Boasters beaten.Another great Feast.Ball-Alley.Narrow Escape of the Ship.Departure for Guam.
Guam.Invasion of the Ladrone Islands by the Spaniards in 1554.Getting off Recruits.Fruit.Climate.Captain Anderson.Massacre of Captain Luce and Boats Crew.Proceed to Japan Cruising-ground.Ship Boy.Boats Crew taken down by a Whale.Albicore and Skipjack.Our Luck again.The Spell broken.Bark Medina.Manuel and the Hog.A slight Tap.
Food of the Sperm Whale.Manner of Feeding.Swimming.Breathing.Herding.
Nature of Sperm Whales Food.Sepia Octopus.Nautilus.
Close of the first Season on Japan.Making Passage to the Group.Land ho!Breathing-places for Sailors.Hendervilles Island.Unpleasant Prospect.Narrow Escape from the Breakers.A large Whale.An ugly Customer.Ocean Island Dick.Ocean Island.Some Pumpkins.Bound for Strongs Island.Calms.Blow, ye gentle Breezes.At our Hotel once more.Hospitality of the Natives.A diabolical Scheme.Anger of the King.Narrow Escape of all Hands from Poisoning.Wilds and the Queen.A sudden Awakening.Wild Boar.Join in the Chase.Brave Men.The Boar presented in great State to the King.Bravery of the White Man.Hog not Dog.At sea again.

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