Don Sturdy with the harpoon hunters; or, The strange cruise of the whaling ship, by Victor Appleton, pseud.

When close enough, Barney, who was the stronger of the two, was to drive the harpoon-point through the thick skin of the creature.

They contained five men each and a steerer, and one had the harpoon-gun fired, with the loose line coiled round and round the head and upper part of the stroke line-manager; and in the others hundreds of fathoms of coiled rope, with toggle-irons, whale-lances, hand-harpoons, and dropped heads, and grins, and lazy abandon, and eyes that stared, and eyes that dozed, and eyes that winked.

"Tyee Klake best harpoon-thrower of all the Thlinkits," said Kalitan, proudly.