The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (18134549946)

Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo17amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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From his lofty perch at the mastliead, the captain can see movements of the whales quite invisible to the harpooners, and by a system of signals with waifs and the clews of the square sails, he directs the course of the boats
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A chain jiassed through a starl)oard hawse pipe is fastened around tlic whah's "sniall." ami wlien drawn in snugly, the victim lies with his flukes near the bow and his head stretching along past the waist. The operations of bringing a whale alongside and of making it fast are called sweeping and fluking. The boat hanging on the forward davits Is the writer's dory, not part of the regular wlialiug (■(luipment of the brig 591