Model of the whaleship “Henry,” made at sea in 1847. This model stands in the main banking rooms of the Company, and may be seen by visitors.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
The Whale | [7] |
Ancient History of Whaling | [8] |
Early New England Whaling | [13] |
Nantucket | [16] |
New Bedford | [23] |
Other New England Whaling Ports | [33] |
Aboard a “Blubber Hunter” | [35] |
Whaling Implements and Whaleboats | [37] |
Different Species of Whales and their Products | [41] |
Methods of Capture and “Trying out” | [45] |
The Perils of Whaling | [51] |
The “Catalpa” Expedition | [58] |
Decline of Whaling and the Causes | [60] |
Whaling of To-day | [62] |
The illustrations used in this brochure are from rare prints in the possession of the Dartmouth Historical Society and the Free Public Library of New Bedford, H. S. Hutchinson & Co., Charles H. Taylor, Jr., Roy C. Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History of New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., and others.
“Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of the English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent People; a People who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone, of manhood.”—From a speech by Edmund Burke before Parliament in 1775.
