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Title: Outing
Year: 1889 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Herbert L. Aldrich (1860-1948)
Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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s of flour, 4,000 pounds of ship bread, 70 barrels of salt beef and pork, 100 pounds of salt codfish, 400 bushels of potatoes, 1,000 pounds of sugar, 300 gallons of molasses, 1,000 pounds of coffee, 150 pounds of tea, 1,000 or more cans of meat, vegetables, fruit, etc., besides small groceries. The men are paid a percentage or "lay", the lay being long or short, according to the ability or position of the man. The captain gets the shortest lay, which varies from one-eighth of the touched the water. Each boat has 200 fathoms of line coiled in tubs, which is used with the harpoon. Then, as emergency articles, there is a keg of freshwater, a keg of bread, a lantern, and an axe to chop the line in case the whale threat-ens to swamp the boat. Whale ships are naturally oily, though they are thoroughly scrubbed with lye after the whaling is over. This oiliness has saved many a whaler from wreck. A good illustration of this is the experience of Capt. Edward Penniman when he was master of the Minerva (ship). His was
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WASHING WHALEBONE. total value of the voyage to a sixteenth.Then come the officers and the men, the lays growing longer down the list until the steerage boy is reached, and he is fortunate if he gets a two-hundredth.Each ship has five whaleboats, and these boats are in charge of the officers and the boat headers, the captain always being in the crows nest to direct the boats by a code of signals. While the boat header—for each officer is.a boat header—manages and steers the boat, the boat steerer uses the harpoon, and frequently also the shoulder gun. Boats always sail down to the whale. To use a paddle, or an oar,would frighten the whale the instant it one of the last ships to leave the Arctic, having fallen in with many whales. When he had the blubber of several on board, he headed out, keeping the try works running. Soon a severe gale came on; the blubber all shifted to one side, giving the ship a bad list, and making her unmanageable ; the weather was too thick to see anything, and she dr

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