"Being once pursued by a whale which he had wounded, he parried the assault for some time with a lance; but the furious monster at length rushed on the boat; himself and comrades only being preserved by leaping into the water when they saw the onset was inevitable."
Missionary Journal of Tyerman and Bennett.
"Nantucket itself," said Mr. Webster, "is a very striking and
peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population
of eight or nine thousand persons, living here in the sea, adding
largely every year to the National wealth by the boldest and
most persevering industry."
Report of Daniel Webster's Speech in the
U. S. Senate, on the application for the
Erection of a Breakwater at Nantucket. 1828.
"The whale fell directly over him, and probably killed him
in a moment."
"The Whale and his Captors, or The Whaleman's
Adventures and the Whale's Biography, gathered
on the Homeward Cruise of the Commodore
Preble." By Rev. Henry T. Cheever.
"If you make the least damn bit of noise," replied Samuel,
"I will send you to hell."
Life of Samuel Comstock (the mutineer), by his
brother, William Comstock. Another Version
of the whale-ship Globe narrative.
"The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern
Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to
India, though they failed of their main object, laid open the
haunts of the whale."
McCulloch's Commercial Dictionary.
"These things are reciprocal; the ball rebounds, only to
bound forward again; for now in laying open the haunts of
the whale, the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new
clews to that same mystic North-West Passage."
From "Something" unpublished.
