Lanterna Rally

Author: William M. Davis

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-26

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9781333362324

Excerpt from Nimrod of the Sea, or the American Whaleman Behold in the wonderful history of American whaling how great a ame this little spark kindled. The practical mother-wit, or gumption, which characterized the early American found expression in this first adventure in this most perilous profession. In this agreement we find that subdivision in interest, that co-operation of capital, skill, labor, and courage which ultimately secured a prosperous career to the Americans, made them masters in the busi ness, and drove the men and ships of all other nations from the whale - fishery. Just two centuries from the date of the above contract, or about ye 5th day of ye 4th month, 1872, my good angel wrote to me, saying: Overhaul your journal of a whaling voyage to the Pacific, and give us a history of American Whaling by pen and pencil. Fling yourself into the work; Write of that strange life as you saw it from the forecastle and the mast-head, from the boats and the quarter-deck: Put into it all the poetry and rapture, the danger and the deviltry, the enjoyment and the suffering, with all the his tory you have in your memory or have access to. To be statistical and tedious is a felony; but history can be made as charming as romance, without losing any of its value. Such were my directions, and, sailing by that chart, I open the old oil-stained pages of my journal, and therein find that on the 11th day of ye 10th month, 18 I, Bill Seaman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."