“History of the American Whale Fishery,” by Alexander Starbuck. “A History of the American Whale Fishery,” by Walter S. Tower. “Moby Dick, or the White Whale,” by Herman Melville. “Whaling Ventures and Adventures,” by George H. Tripp. “Whaling and Fishing,” by Charles Nordhoff. “Miriam Coffin,” by Col. Joseph C. Hart. “The Gam,” by Capt. Charles Henry Robbins. “Eighteen Months on a Greenland Whaler,” by Joseph P. Faulkner. “Arctic Whaleman and Whaling,” by Rev. Lewis Holmes. “Cruise of the Cachalot,” by Frank T. Bullen. “History of Nantucket,” by Edward K. Godfrey. “History of Nantucket,” by Obed Macy. “History of Nantucket,” by Douglas-Lithgow. “The Glacier’s Gift” (Nantucket), by Eva C. G. Folger. “History of New Bedford,” by Daniel Ricketson. “The Perils and Romance of Whaling,” by G. Kobbé. “The Whale and its Captors,” by Rev. Henry T. Cheever. “Incidents of a Whaling Voyage,” by Olmstead. “Nimrod of the Sea,” by Captain Davis. “Hunting the Biggest of all Big Game,” by Roy C. Andrews. “Four Years Aboard a Whaleship,” by William B. Whitecar, Jr. “Etchings of a Whaling Cruise,” by J. Ross Browne. “Bark Kathleen, sunk by a Whale,” by Capt. T. H. Jenkins. “Peter the Whaler,” by William H. G. Kingston. “The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States,” by George Brown Goode, prepared for the United States Tenth Census. [Illustration: Model of the whaleship “Henry,” made at sea in 1847. This model stands in the main banking rooms of the Company, and may be seen by visitors.] CONTENTS PAGE THE WHALE 7 ANCIENT HISTORY OF WHALING 8 EARLY NEW ENGLAND WHALING 13 NANTUCKET 16 NEW BEDFORD 23 OTHER NEW ENGLAND WHALING PORTS 33 ABOARD A “BLUBBER HUNTER” 35 WHALING IMPLEMENTS AND WHALEBOATS 37 DIFFERENT SPECIES OF WHALES AND THEIR PRODUCTS 41 METHODS OF CAPTURE AND “TRYING OUT” 45 THE PERILS OF WHALING 51 THE “CATALPA” EXPEDITION 58 DECLINE OF WHALING AND THE CAUSES 60 WHALING OF TO-DAY 62 The illustrations used in this brochure are from rare prints in the possession of the Dartmouth Historical Society and the Free Public Library of New Bedford, H. S. Hutchinson & Co., Charles H. Taylor, Jr., Roy C. Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History of New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., and others. * * * * *