The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales

pubOne.info present you this new edition. In the following pages an attempt has been made— it is believed for the first time— to give an account of the cruise of a South Sea whaler from the seaman's standpoint. Two very useful books have been published— both of them over half a century ago— on the same subject; but, being written by the surgeons of whale-ships for scientific purposes, neither of them was interesting to the general reader. [“Narrative of a Whaling Voyage round the Glo