FOUR YEARS
ABOARD THE
WHALESHIP.

EMBRACING
CRUISES IN THE PACIFIC, ATLANTIC, INDIAN, AND ANTARCTIC OCEANS,
IN THE YEARS
1855,’6,’7,’8,’9.

BY
WILLIAM B. WHITECAR, Jr.


PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO.
1860.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.,
in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

TO
MY FATHER,
WHO HAS EVER ENCOURAGED MY LITERARY EFFORTS,
AND
THE FIRST TO DIRECT THEM IN A PROPER CHANNEL,
THIS VOLUME
Is Respectfully Dedicated by

THE AUTHOR.