The Whale Ship - The Pioneer in Ferreting Out the Unknown Seas

For many years past, the whale ship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and least known parts of the earth. She has explored seas and archipelagoes which no cook or vancouver had ever sailed. If american and european men of war now peacefully ride in once savage harbours, let them fire salutes to the honor and glory of the whale ship. It was the whaleman who first broke through the jealous lacy of the spanish crown, touching those colonies. On the other side of the sphere, australia was given to enlightened world by the whalemen after its first blunderborne discovery by a dutchman