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Title: The marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America, described and illustrated; together with an account of the American whale-fishery
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Scammon, Charles Melville, 1825-1911
Subjects: Marine mammals Cetacea Sealing Whaling Whales Dolphins
Publisher: San Francisco, J.H. Carmany New York, Putnam
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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-warps, one boat-spade,three lance-warps, one boat-warp, one boat-hatchet, two boat-knives, one boat-waif,one boat - compass, one boat-hook, one drag, one grapnel, one boat-anchor,* onesweeping-line, lead, buoy, etc., one boat-keg, one boat-bucket, one piggin, onekntern-keg (containing flint, steel, box of tinder, lantern, candles, bread, tobacco,and pipes), one boat-crotch, one tub-oar crotch, half a dozen chock-pins, a roll * The full equipment as here enumerated, is the bays or lagoons, the anchor is indispensable, modified to suit the particular branch of whaling and the grapnel, sweeping-line, lead, and buoy, pursued, as for instance, in deep-sea whaling are of much service. But many other articles there is no use for the anchor, and in sperm are left out or supplied to a limited extent, so whaling the sweeping-line, buoy, etc., are not that the boat may be as light as possible, and required; while in California Gray whaling in work easily and quickly in shallow water. Plate XXTV
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