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Title: The Arctic whaleman; or, Winter in the Arctic Ocean: being a narrative of the wreck of the whale ship Citizen ..
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Holmes, Lewis
Subjects: Citizen (Ship : 1843-1849) Whaling Shipwrecks
Publisher: Boston, Wentworth
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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aceful Home to him must be given; The Mariners Bethel allures to devotion ; The Bible and preacher direct him to Heaven. Seamen, of all classes, you are remembered bythousands and tens of thousands, throughoutthe land and world, who are deeply interested inyour welfare. Day and night you are thoughtof and prayed for by those whom you have leftbehind; and many a desire is breathed out inthe presence of Him who alone can save, thatyou may be protected in your absence, shieldedfrom temptations, and returned again to yourfriends. May the Star of Bethlehem, which alone can NINE MONTHS IN THE ARCTIC. 237 fix the sinners wandering eye, guide many ason of the ocean, and lead him to say, — It was my guide, my light, my all; It bade my dark forebodings cease ;And, through the storm and dangers thrall, It led me to the port of peace. Now, safely moored, my perils oer, Ill sing, first in nights diadem,Forever, and forevermore, The Star — the Star of Bethlehem ! .illltl iililiillft!:,!1!!!!! w
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF WHALING, WITH SOME OF ITS INTERESTING DETAILS. CHAPTER I. Whale Fishery.— Its Origin. — Where first carried on. — By whom.—Whaling in the Northern Ocean by the Dutch and English. — Contentionsbetween them. — The Success of the Dutch. — Its Commencement in NewEngland. — London Documents.— The first Whale Scene in Nantucket. — Boat Whaling. — The Number of Whales taken in one Day. — Thefirst Spermaceti Whale. — The Interest it excited. — Its supposed Value. — The first Sperm Whale captured. — New Life to the Business. — Whal-ing in Massachusetts in 1771-75. — Burkes Eulogy on New EnglandWhalers. — Sperm Whaling in Great Britain. — Revived in France. — TheAmerican and French Revolutions nearly destroyed the Business. — Lossto Nantucket. — Its Commencement in New Bedford. — Tabular View ofthe Number of Vessels engaged in Whaling, and Places to which theybelong. No species of fishery, prosecuted any where on the surfaceof t

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