whale-ships

These messages were sealed, and protected shrewdly from the weather, and I was to deliver them to the whale-ships of the Arctic, ice-bound by the great Mackenzie.

GRIT OF WOMEN 2010

Sea on the west, more sailors deserted from the whale-ships to the north, and they all starved together in right brotherly fashion.

The Gold Hunters of the North 2010

All of which is neither here nor there, for my story deals not with the whale-ships, nor the berg-bound winter I spent by the Mackenzie.

GRIT OF WOMEN 2010

Charley reminisces on the time when he traveled with a man named Long Jeff and a Chilcat woman named Passuk to deliver government mail 700 miles to whale-ships on the ice-rim of the Bering Sea.

“Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins.” 2008

“The great live squid, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld, and returned to their ports to tell of it.”

Squidpunk…It Might Just Be Go-Time?… 2010

Hence, in whale-ships and merchantmen alike, the mates have their quarters with the captain; and so, too, in most of the American whalers the harpooneers are lodged in the after part of the ship.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Who ever heard of two pious whale-ships cruising after one missing whale-boat in the height of the whaling season?

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

It is a thing well known to both American and English whale-ships, and as well a thing placed upon authoritative record years ago by Scoresby, that some whales have been captured far north in the Pacific, in whose bodies have been found the barbs of harpoons darted in the Greenland seas.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

“The great live squid, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld, and returned to their ports to tell of it.”

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Mr. Ritchie, now residing there, supplies a large number of whale-ships that cruise off the Cape, annually, with fresh provisions, fruits, and water.

What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant