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In 1873, 21-year-old Sam Williams embarked on a whaling journey on the two-masted F.H. Moore--he steered one of the boats and threw the harpoon. He kept a personal log and reworked it into this never-before-published manuscript, now supplemented by additional research and relevant excerpts of the ship's official logbook.
Complementing this are excerpts from three other accounts of whaling voyages: Incidents of a Whaling Voyage by Francis Allyn Olmstead (1841); Etchings of a Whaling Cruise by J. Ross Browne (1846), an expose of the whaling industry; and The Gam: Being a Group of Whaling Stories by Capt. Charles Henry Robbins (1899), a personal story of nearly an entire life at sea. The four accounts open the 19th century world of whaling to modern readers in a realistic and unromantic way.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I: "The Voyage of the F.H. Moore" by Samuel Grant Williams
One. Meet Fluker and the Crew 5
Two. Our First Day at Sea: Goodbye to Boston 9
Three. On the Way to San Domingo 13
Four. Story of Captain Peakes 17
Five. Gonives Bay and Our First Whale 22
Six. Off for More Whales 27
Seven. Off This Coast of Honduras 31
Eight. Blackfish and More Fruit 33
Nine. Cruising in the Tracks of Columbus 36
Ten. Cruising Among the Islands 38
Eleven. Southwest Key and One Comfortable Home 40
Twelve. New Year's, 1874 41
Thirteen. Sam the Boatsteerer's Story 45
Fourteen. [Untitled] 48
Fifteen. The Captain's Wife 58
Sixteen. [Untitled] 62
Conclusion 69
Part II: An Unfinished Book by Samuel Grant Williams
One 73
Two 75
Three 77
Four 79
[An Incomplete Chapter] 81
Canary Islands 86
Part III: Excerpt from Incidents of a Whaling Voyage by Francis Allyn Olmsted
Part IV: Excerpts from Etchings of a Whaling Cruise by J. Ross Browne
Part V: Excerpts from The Gam by Capt. Charles H. Robbins
Making a Master 164
That Great Leviathan 167
Beach Combers 177
Right Whales 180
Whale-Land and Its Customs 182
The Frozen North 186
Whales Has Feelins 189
The Captain 197
Index