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There is a population of\r\n  eight or nine thousand persons living here in the sea, adding largely\r\n  every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering\r\n  industry.” —_Report of Daniel Webster’s Speech in the U. S. Senate,\r\n  on the application for the Erection of a Breakwater at Nantucket_.\r\n  1828.\r\n\r\n  “The whale fell directly over him, and probably killed him in a\r\n  moment.” —“_The Whale and his Captors, or The Whaleman’s Adventures\r\n  and the Whale’s Biography, gathered on the Homeward Cruise of the\r\n  Commodore Preble_.” _By Rev. Henry T. Cheever_.\r\n\r\n  “If you make the least damn bit of noise,” replied Samuel, “I will\r\n  send you to hell.” —_Life of Samuel Comstock_ (_the mutineer_), _by\r\n  his brother, William Comstock. Another Version of the whale-ship\r\n  Globe narrative_.\r\n\r\n  “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in\r\n  order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to India, though\r\n  they failed of their main object, laid-open the haunts of the whale.”\r\n  —_McCulloch’s Commercial Dictionary_.\r\n\r\n  “These things are reciprocal; the ball rebounds, only to bound\r\n  forward again; for now in laying open the haunts of the whale, the\r\n  whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same\r\n  mystic North-West Passage.” —_From_ “_Something_” _unpublished_.\r\n\r\n  “It is impossible to meet a whale-ship on the ocean without being\r\n  struck by her near appearance. The vessel under short sail, with\r\n  look-outs at the mast-heads, eagerly scanning the wide expanse around\r\n  them, has a totally different air from those engaged in regular\r\n  voyage.” —_Currents and Whaling. U.S. Ex. Ex_.\r\n\r\n  “Pedestrians in the vicinity of London and elsewhere may recollect\r\n  having seen large curved bones set upright in the earth, either to\r\n  form arches over gateways, or entrances to alcoves, and they may\r\n  perhaps have been told that these were the ribs of whales.” —_Tales\r\n  of a Whale Voyager to the Arctic Ocean_.\r\n\r\n  “It was not till the boats returned from the pursuit of these whales,\r\n  that the whites saw their ship in bloody possession of the savages\r\n  enrolled among the crew.” —_Newspaper Account of the Taking and\r\n  Retaking of the Whale-Ship Hobomack_.\r\n\r\n  “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels\r\n  (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they\r\n  departed.” —_Cruise in a Whale Boat_.\r\n\r\n  “Suddenly a mighty mass emerged from the water, and shot up\r\n  perpendicularly into the air. It was the whale.” —_Miriam Coffin or\r\n  the Whale Fisherman_.\r\n\r\n  “The Whale is harpooned to be sure; but bethink you, how you would\r\n  manage a powerful unbroken colt, with the mere appliance of a rope\r\n  tied to the root of his tail.” —_A Chapter on Whaling in Ribs and\r\n  Trucks_.\r\n\r\n  “On one occasion I saw two of these monsters (whales) probably male\r\n  and female, slowly swimming, one after the other, within less than a\r\n  stone’s throw of the shore” (Terra Del Fuego), “over which the beech\r\n  tree extended its branches.” —_Darwin’s Voyage of a Naturalist_.\r\n\r\n  “‘Stern all!’ exclaimed the mate, as upon turning his head, he saw\r\n  the distended jaws of a large Sperm Whale close to the head of the\r\n  boat, threatening it with instant destruction;—‘Stern all, for your\r\n  lives!’” —_Wharton the Whale Killer_.\r\n\r\n  “So be cheery, my lads, let your hearts never fail, While the bold\r\n  harpooneer is striking the whale!” —_Nantucket Song_.\r\n\r\n\r\n  “Oh, the rare old Whale, mid storm and gale In his ocean home will be\r\n  A giant in might, where might is right, And King of the boundless\r\n  sea.” —_Whale Song_.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 5"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KFNR82YYCTKCKZWXDPCZ5WQE","peer_label":"Extracts","peer_type":"section","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KFNR82YYCTKCKZWXDPCZ5WQE","peer_label":"Extracts","peer_type":"section","predicate":"partOf"},{"peer":"01KFNR81RMVAX2BBMMBW51V97D","peer_label":"Moby Dick; Or, The Whale","peer_type":"novel","predicate":"partOf"},{"peer":"01KFNR0H0Q791Y1SMZWEQ09FGV","peer_label":"Moby Dick","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KFNR86TJQHZA9ZBQPXC63G1P","peer_label":"Chunk 4","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-23T15:41:02.390Z","ts":"2026-01-23T15:41:18.955Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}