About twelve years ago, I hired a whale-boat and four black men, and proceeded to Long-Island after a load of round clams.

The chronometers of all the whale ships were brought to Mr. Mitchell, on their return from a voyage, to be "rated," as it was called.

The whale-fishery was a very profitable business, and the town was one of the wealthiest in the State.

It is certainly the strongest form of excitement imaginablenext, perhaps, to whale-fishing.

Can he who has discovered only some of the values of whalebone and whale oil be said to have discovered the true use of the whale?

The stout little roan was gathering its muscular limbs under it, and stretching to the gallop as if it were steel and whale-bone instead of flesh and blood.

It may be well, here, to explain to the uninitiated reader, that the harpoon is a barbed spear, with a small, but stout cord, or whale line fastened to it.

On our way we stopped at Steragowan, an interesting little village, bought a few stores, and secured some interesting stone lamps, and whale spears, with throwing sticks.

His gold-laced hat was exchanged for a bearskin cap, his suit of blue broadcloth, with its scarlet lining, and loops, and frogs of bullion, had given place to a red flannel jacket, with buttons of black horn, over which he wore a seal-skin shirt curiously seamed and plaited on the bosom, such as are used by the Esquimaux, and sometimes by the Greenland whale-fishers.

"Thought we'd been shot by natives with a whale-gun.

Not only would it be possible to take part in the pursuit of the wild fauna of the continent, but I also hoped to share in a novel sport, not unlike a whale-hunt in Baffin's Bay.

After three days sail, he was as far north as the whale-hunters ever go; and then proceeded in his course due north for other three days, when he found the land, instead of stretching due north, as hitherto, to trend from thence towards the east.

Rowed forty mile after a whale onct, 'n' caught the critterfairly rowed him down.

Eager and greedy, The lone wanderer screams, and resistlessly drives my soul onward, Over the whale-path, over the tracts of the sea.

There is master Harry, the lad on the poop there, he who hails a yard as soft as a bull-whale roars; I follow his signals, d'ye see; and it is seldom that I bother him with questions as to what tack he means to lay his boat on next.

T. Gill in 1865 described a large shark known in the Gulf of California by the name of "Tiburon ballenas" or whale-shark, as a distinct genusMicristodus punctatuswhich, in my opinion, is the same fish.

"Whales sound, don't they?" "Well, there's not been a sound out of this one so far," truthfully observed Hiram.

10 Ægeon here a mighty whale bestrode; Triton, and Proteus, (the deceiving god,)

One of them bergs has turned over, like a whale wallowing, and it has set all the others a-rocking.

"An' it's hot, too, it is," he continued, applying his kerchief again to his pate "If it warn't for the ice we stand on, we'd be melted down, I do belave, like bits o' whale blubber.

At Land's End it is not uncommon for storms to be heralded by weird sounds; and in the northern seas sailors, always a superstitious race of people, used to be much alarmed by a singular musical effect, which is now well known to be caused by nothing more fearsome than a whale breathing.

All went well till the dogs caught sight of a whale breeching in the 30 ft. lead and promptly made for it!

No one knows where the porpoise and the whale cradle their newborn infantsit is so difficult to pry into the domestic ways of these sea-peoplebut evidently the seals cannot manage it, so they are forced to return to the land when the cares of maternity are on them.

All the whale family, though apparently phlegmatic, are somewhat given to Blowing up, and, when about to die, instead of taking the matter coolly and philosophically, they are always terribly Flurried.

This consists chiefly in offal, old skins, entrails, such parts of whale-flesh as are unfit for other use, rotten whale-fins, &c.; and if they are not provided with this kind of dog's meat, they leave them to go and seek dead fish or muscles upon the beach.