Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-11-23

i'll the air. and moment afterwards was
several iathoms under water. The whale
came up head foremost, hittiIg the boat n
tremendous knock under my feet, sending
me all flying. The captain, at the same
time grabbed HIS steering or, and over
board he went also. Fortunately l could
swim well, and soon come upto blow; but
! had hardly time to spout bsfore found !
was in very dsagrecable situation. Put
ting out my arm TO swim, i hit the whale
on the head, and ut the sane time saw the
boat three or four rods from mt. i confess
l did not feel exactly rigik, but it was no
use for me to lay still and be picked up Ike
a squid. So made regular shove off,
with my feet against the ewhale's head, and
struck out for the boat. j saw all was con-
fusion in the boat, and that the men did not
notice me at all. had on thick clothes,
and found it hard swimming. Finally one
OF the men saw me, and stopped tle boat,
which some OF them was steering away
from me as fast as they could. As l got in
at the bow, saw the captain coming over
the stern. Halo, said he, " where have
you been TO.
"After the whale, said /.
"And ] have been after you," said the
captain. We had good laugh, rung out
our hair and started for the whale again /;
she lay still, with her jaws open, and head
towards the boat the rest of her body was
under water, so that she had no chance TO
kill,
We lay still watching her motions. All
at once she let her jaws fly back, striking
the boat in the bow, and smashing hole
through her; the boat began to fill, but Tor
iunately we had a jacket ready, and stopped
the hole up, SO we kept from filling, and
pulled up to the whale again. This time
she headed the mate. and lay her whole
broadside towards US. We had nothing to
do but to pull up, and in lance, the whale
lying perfectly still all the time. In twenty
minutes she went into her furry, and soon
after lay fin out. We took her alongside
the ship, and commenced cutting her in
but it took all the next day to get her all
in. She measured over seventy-fve fee
in length, and between fifty and sixty fee
around the largest part of the body hel
jaw was seventeen and a half feet long, an,
her fukes seventeen feet broad. She stow
ed us down one hundred and twenty -fiv
barrels of sperm oil.
This is the sort of game that il wort
killing. and makes man feed proud to lool
upon. Ana M me pursuit Of it, are engage,
men who, as class, have been looked upor
by some of our nicely Judged people OF
shore, as hardly worth the name of men
men who have more soul in the tip of theil
fingers, than could be possibly obtained il
the whole body of many who pretend ts
scorn them. The whaleman's life is hare
one. And were it not for the interest ant
excitement which aifaest all feel who engag,
in it, would soon be given up. Whalin,
eughtto be encouraged, and whalemen Ough
to receive more than they now do for rhei
oil The noble sperm whale that was mad
on purpose for its oil, should never be sup
planted by the long nose grunters, who ar
trying to root themselves into notice, an
whose lard oil is not TO be compared witt
the pure sperm, which never changes, bu
is the same in heat or cold.
CAPT. JENKINS.