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A collection of seafaring narratives and sketches depicting life aboard whalers and other vessels, with accounts of whale hunts, boat chases, storms, collisions, rescues, and everyday shipboard routines. The pieces mix vivid action and suspense with quieter episodes of camaraderie, practical experiments, and holiday observances, while offering natural-history observations of marine life and nautical craft. Moments of tragedy and comic relief reveal character under strain, and the varied vignettes remain rooted in detailed maritime experience and reflection.
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| They met in full career, rolling each over each | Frontispiece |
| The toiling men were breaking out the junk’s cargo | 60 |
| Gently she covered their ruddy faces | 121 |
| The skipper produced from his hip-pocket a revolver | 163 |
| He gasped “In manus tuas, Domine,” and fell | 208 |
| He clutched his insulter by the beard and belt | 263 |
| She was to him brightest and best of all damsels | 309 |
| A huge sailing-ship crushed her into matchwood | 353 |