[Illustration: THE FIRST WHALE. Page 67.] THERE SHE BLOWS! OR, THE LOG OF THE ARETHUSA. BY CAPT. W. H. MACY. OF NANTUCKET. BOSTON LEE & SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS NEW YORK: CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM COPYRIGHT, 1877, BY LEE & SHEPARD. THE AUTHOR TO HIS READERS. The story embodied in these pages is not to be regarded as a mere "yarn." It is rather a series of illustrated sketches of actual life on the ocean, made up of real incidents and introducing for the most part real characters, many of which will be recognized. Indeed the author may truly say that in writing these "Leaves," he felt himself simply telling a story--not making one. Since its first publication in serial form, nine years ago, he has been stricken with one of the heaviest of physical infirmities. Doomed to life-long blindness, the recollection of years spent at sea in the prime of manhood, come crowding upon him more thickly than ever, and he finds his chief solace in having still retained the ability to write them down for the benefit and amusement of others. His seafaring friends, as they overhaul the log of their own experience, will at once recognize the truthfulness of the pictures he has drawn here. W. H. M. NANTUCKET, MASS., August, 1877. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE. FROM PECK SLIP TO NANTUCKET BAR 1 CHAPTER II. IN AND OUT OVER THE BAR 12 CHAPTER III. FROM THE BAR ROUND GREAT POINT 24 CHAPTER IV. FAIRLY AT SEA.--THE FIRST LOOKOUT.--INTRODUCTION 38 CHAPTER V. THE WESTERN ISLANDS.--"YARNS" AND ANECDOTES 50 CHAPTER VI. THE FIRST WHALE 62 CHAPTER VII. "CUTTING IN" 73 CHAPTER VIII. BOILING.--CUTTING THE LINE.--DUTCH COURAGE.--"MAN OVERBOARD" 85 CHAPTER IX. "GAMMING" WITH A "HOMEWARD-BOUNDER" 98 CHAPTER X. WHALING NEAR THE FALKLANDS.--DEATH OF MR. JOHNSON 112 CHAPTER XI. PROMOTION.--"COOPER'S NOVELS."--THE MATE MORALIZES.--CAPE HORN 125 CHAPTER XII. FISHING AT JUAN FERNANDEZ.--FIGHT WITH AN UGLY WHALE 139 CHAPTER XIII. TALCAHUANA 153 CHAPTER XIV.