ecuring the whale alongside.

CHAPTER VI--"DIRTY WORK FOR CLEAN MONEY" Goliath in trouble--Commence
"cutting-in"--A heavy head--A tank of spermaceti--Decks running
with oil--A "Patent" mincing-machine--Extensive cooking--Dangerous
work--Three tuns of oil--A horrible mess--A thin-skinned monster--A fine
mouth of teeth.

CHAPTER VII--GETTING SOUTHWARD Captain Slocum's
amenities--Expensive beer--St. Paul's Rocks--"Bonito"--"Showery"
weather--Waterspouts--Calms--A friendly finback--A disquisition on
whales by Mistah Jones--Flying-fishing.

CHAPTER VIII--ABNER'S WHALE Abner in luck--A big "fish" at last--A feat
of endurance--A fighting whale--The sperm whale's food--Ambergris--A
good reception--Hard labour--Abner's reward--"Scrimshaw".

CHAPTER IX--OUR FIRST CALLING-PLACE A forced march--Tristan
d'Acunha--Visitors--Fresh provisions--A warm welcome--Goliath's
turn--a feathered host--Good gear--A rough time--Creeping
north--Uncertainty--"Rule of thumb"--navigation--The Mozambique Channel.

CHAPTER X--A VISIT TO SOME STRANGE PLACES Tropical thunderstorms--A
"record" day's fishing--Cetacean frivolities--Mistah Jones moralizes--A
snug harbour--Wooding and watering--Catching a turtle--Catching a
"Tartar"--A violent death--A crooked jaw--Aldabra Island--Primeval
inhabitants--A strange steed--"Pirate" birds--Good eggs--Green
cocoa-nuts--More turtle--A school of "kogia".

CHAPTER XI--ROUND THE COCOS AND SEYCHELLES We encounter a "cyclone"--A
tremendous gust--a foundering ship--To anchor for repairs--The
Cocos--Repairing damages--Around the Seychelles--A "milk" sea--A
derelict prahu--A ghastly freight--A stagnant sea.

CHAPTER XII--WHICH TREATS OF THE KRAKEN "Eyes and no eyes" at sea--Of
big mollusca--The origin of sea-serpent stories--Rediscovery of the
"Kraken"--A conflict of monsters--"The insatiable nightmares of the
sea"--Spermaceti running to waste--The East Indian maze.

CHAPTER XIII--OFF TO THE JAPAN GROUNDS A whale off Hong Kong--The
skipper and his "'bomb-gun"--Injury to the captain--Unwelcome
visitors--The heathen Chinee--We get safe off--"Death of Portagee
Jim"--The Funeral--The Coast of Japan--Port Lloyd--Meeting of
whale-ships.

CHAPTER XIV--LIBERTY DAY--AND AFTER Liberty day--I foregather with
a "beach-comber"--A big fight--Goliath on the war-path--A
court-martial--Wholesale flogging--a miserable crowd--Quite a fleet of
whale-ships--I "raise" a sperm whale--Severe competition--An unfortunate