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Frome the foreword:-
"Breaks and white waters! - Thar she blows!"
Jered Naish, master of the Obis, had never hunted whale in all his seafaring life. But his brutal crew were ready to mutiny, and there as only one ay to conuer them...
The killer whale broe surface, jaws open, fins slamming the waves.
"Haul on!" Naish commanded the oarsmen. "Take me to him!" He thrust in the lance as the small boat grazed past the monster,
The whale backed, rithing, streaming with blood, and wheeled to lunge head-on..heeled to lunge head-on.
"The gun!" Naish yelled. "The gun!"
Someone shoved it in his hand, and he shot the bomb straight don the gaping red throat.
"Rigors and hazards of whaling - first class writing about the sea!" Saturday Review