The Savage, the White Sailor, and the Whaler

An ancient hawaiian war club or spear paddle, in its full multiplicity and elaboration of carving, is as great a trophy of human perseverance as a latin lexicon. Wooden whales, or whales, cut in profile out of the small, dark slabs of the noble south sea warwood, are frequently met within the foxcatles of american whalers. You will see brass whales hung by the tail for knockers to the roadside door. On the spires of some old fashioned churches, you will see sheet iron whales placed there for weathercocks. In bony ribby regions of the earth where at the base of high broken cliffs, masses of rock