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Title: The Two Whalers
Adventures in the Pacific

Author: W.H.G. Kingston

Release Date: October 31, 2007 [EBook #23260]

Language: English

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The Two Whalers; or, Adventures in the Pacific, by W.H.G. Kingston.

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Jack is a young teenager, who is being prepared for the sea. He lives in
Deal, a busy port in East Kent, and several well-found boats with good
skippers hail from there. After attending a nautical college, and
obtaining first prize there, he goes to sea with Captain Hake in the
"Eagle". He has already met Medley, another apprentice in the same
vessel.

They have difficulty getting out of the Thames Estuary and into the
Channel, on account of the weather, but eventually they reach southern
latitudes where again they have difficulty in rounding Cape Horn and
getting into the Pacific. Here begin a series of difficulties despite
which they manage to catch some whales, and boil down the blubber, for
its oil. The difficulties include weather, mutineers, pirates, and
separation of whaling boats from the mother ship.

Eventually of course all problems are overcome, and they return to
England, no doubt to go back to sea again soon after.

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THE TWO WHALERS; OR, ADVENTURES IN THE PACIFIC, BY W.H.G. KINGSTON.

CHAPTER ONE.

I hail from Deal, where my father was highly respected, not on account
of his worldly wealth, for of that he had but small store, but because
he was an honest, upright, God-fearing man, who did his duty to his
neighbour, and ruled his family with discretion.

And my mother--she was a mother!--so loving and gentle and considerate;
she kept us, her children, of whom there were nine, I being the third,
in excellent order, and yet we scarcely discovered the means she
employed. We trusted her implicitly; we knew that she entered into all
our sorrows as well as into our j