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Title: Incidents of a whaling voyage : to which are added observations on the scenery manners and customs, and missionary stations of the Sandwich and Society Islands : accompanied by numerous lithographic plates
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Olmsted, Francis Allyn, 1819-1844
Subjects: Whaling
Publisher: New-York : Published by D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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is back near the tail. Hisnostrils unite in a single tube upon the upper mandible ofthe bill, and he is web-footed like all sea birds. MotherCareys chickens, as the sailors call these birds, arefound in every latitude all over the globe. They almostseem to have sprung out of the ocean ; for in the stormor the calm alike, they are seen skimming over thewaves in quest of food many hundred miles from land. The Mother Careys chicken, was formerly re-garded with superstitious fancies by the mariner. Theappearance of these birds in great numbers, was supposedto be indicative of the coming storm, and while theirpresence was a bad omen and to be deprecated, thewarning was received with a becoming reverence. Toshoot one of them would doom the rash oflender to diremisfortune. The petrel, therefore, was held sacredin the creed of the prudent voyager. up and down! Up and down!From the base of the wave to the billows crown,And amidst the flashing and feathery foamThe Stormy Petrel finds a home,—
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PEAKED-NOSE SHARK. 183 A home, if such a place may be For her who lives on the wide wide sea, On the craggy ice, in the frozen air, And only seeketh her rocky lair To warm her young, and teach them spring At once oer the waves on their stormy wing! Oer the deep ! Oer the deep ! Where the whale, and the shark, and the sword fish sleep, Outflying the blast and the driving rain. The Petrel telleth her tale in vain ; For the mariner curseth the warning bird Who bringeth him news of the storms unheard ! Ah! thus does the prophet, of good or ill. Meet hate from the creatures he serveth still: Yet he neer falters:—So Petrel! spring Once more oer the waves on thy stormy wing. Barry Cornwall. The whale captured the other day was hauled along-side at SO late an hour, that the cutting in was defer-red until the next day, and we were obliged to lay by him all night. Great numbers of sharks were attractedto the carcass, and on the succeeding morning, I caughtsix or seven of them, with a large ho

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