“Little Jack, came home.
“Grant, young fellow, went ashore half dead, spitting blood, at Oahu.
“Murray, went ashore, shunning fight at Rio Janeiro.
“The Cooper, came home.”
Of the twenty-seven men who went out with the ship, only the Captain, the Second Mate, a Boatswain, the Cook, the Cooper and six of the mongrel crew (one of which made several futile attempts to escape) came back home with her. The First Mate had a fight with the Captain and left the ship; the Carpenter and four of the crew went ashore to die, two at least with venereal diseases, another went ashore spitting blood, another to commit suicide.
SPERM WHALING. THE CAPTURE.
Drawing by A. Van Beest, R. Swain Gifford and Benj. Russell, 1850.
ONE OF SIX WHALING PRINTS. LONDON, 1750.