The Sperm Whale Ship

The world scouts at us whale hunters, yet does it unwittingly pay us the profoundest homage. For almost all the tapers, lamps and candles that burn round the globe burn as before so many shrines our glory. Why did dutch in de witt's time have admirals of their whaling fleets? And lastly, how comes it that we whalemen of america now outnumber all the rest of the banded whalemen in the world? Sail a navy of upwards of 700 vessels, manned by 18 to and men, yearly, consuming four million of dollars. Every year importing into our harbours a well reaped harvest of seven million. How comes all