There was ample time after this severe ordeal1 to restore the Eliza Adams to her pristine2 cleanliness, for as the captain caustically3 remarked, the whales seemed to have all concentrated in that spot and subsequently to have all left for parts unknown. And really it did seem like it, for no solitary4 spout5 was seen for nearly three weeks. Then came a pleasant diversion; how pleasant only those can know who for many months have been denied all the intercourse6 with their kind outside of the little population of the ship. Pepe being at the masthead from 4 to 6 p.m. yelled “Sail ho.” This was the first cry of that kind that the crew had heard since leaving Norfolk Island, and be sure they were proportionately excited.
Many eager speculations7 were made during the next two hours, for the wind was but light and she was fully8 ten miles away, as to whether the stranger was a “spouter9” or a merchantman. And a great relief was felt when just at sunset she was made out to be one of their own fraternity, and joyful10 greeting signals were exchanged. It was quite dark before the two ships came near enough to each other to “gam” as we call it, but what of that? What of the fact that a stiff breeze had got up, and that boats passing between the ships in the dark must necessarily have a rough time. In the Navy and among[Pg 136] the whalers such things are most lightly esteemed11. I have seen a group of Naval12 officers brave a most tempestuous13 passage of half an hour’s duration, the picquet boat taking green water over as she plunged15 through the seas, merely to have an hour’s lawn tennis or golf and come off again, and I have known repeatedly whalemen brave the terrors of the great Southern ocean rollers in half a gale16 of wind at night merely in order to have a chat with some fresh fellows, exchange a few ideas that to strangers might have the merit of novelty.
So at eight bells, 8 p.m., as her lights were seen stationary17 abeam18 about a mile away, a boat was lowered from the Eliza Adams into which the captain and C. B. with the boat’s crew descended19, and pulled away into the darkness until the dim black hull20 of the vessel21 they are bound to suddenly loomed22 huge and threatening from the darkness.
“Ship ahoy!” roared the skipper. “Here’s Captain Taber of the Eliza Adams come a gamming.”
“Welcome, Captain Taber, I knew it was you as soon as I heard ye hail. This is the Matilda Sayer of Dartmouth, Captain Rotch.”
“Good lad,” yelled Captain Taber delightedly. “Pull two, stern three, ah! unrow there;”—and as the boat ranged alongside he gripped the man ropes and ascended24 the side ladder of rope like a goat climbing a precipice25.
While the two old friends greeted each other there was a whirring of sheaves and down came the mate’s boat into the water. Dark forms leapt into her and she pushed off, immemorial custom having decided26 that in gamming when the captain visits a ship the mate of that ship goes a visiting his fellow on board the other vessel. As they pushed off into the darkness a voice was heard above, “Haul up and[Pg 137] hook on, chums,” and they did so, their boat being cheerily hoisted27 into the position the other had left. For this was also a pleasant sea-custom among whalers, being eminently28 practicable because of the almost standard size of all whale boats.
Arriving on deck the four hands were immediately haled forrard, and C. B. was welcomed in the half deck by the harponeers, where such hospitality as they possessed29 was offered him and all hands crowded around him eager to talk to him, and listen to what he had to say. First of all with native courtesy they inquired what sort of a season the Eliza Adams was having and other matters of that kind, but he could not help noticing that they all looked curiously30 at him, as if they could not quite make him out. At last the old carpenter, a fine venerable Yankee, said—
“Whar d’ye hail from, mister?”
“I come from Norfolk Island,” replied C. B. pleasantly.
“Well, do tell,” ejaculated the cooper, “I didn’t know they was ever any natives on Norfolk ’cept convicks from England, and I heerd that they was done away with long ago. An’ yew31 don’ look like a Kanaka neither.”
“Neither am I,” explained C. B. with gentle dignity. “Surely you must have heard of the Pitcairn Islanders finding Pitcairn too small for them, and a number of them being sent by the British Government to Norfolk Island, which was given them to live in.”
A chorus of remembrance arose in a babel of voices until the old carpenter, getting up, came close to C. B. and peered in his face intently, at last remarking quietly, “Did your father ever go to sea in a spouter, young feller?”
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“Oh yes,” answered C. B.; “he was in the Rainbow and the Canton, both New England whaleships, for a considerable time.”
“And what might his name be, if he’s still alive, as I hope?”
“Thank you, he’s still alive, or was three months ago, when I left home, God bless him, and his name is Philip Adams!”
The effect upon the carpenter was electrical. He smote32 his thigh33 with great violence and shouted—“Boys, thishyer fine specimen34 of a boy is the son of the finest specimen of a man that ever trod God Almighty’s earth. Nine months I was shipmates with him in the ole Canton, and if ever a man was tried by a lot of ornery scalawags, he was. He could a broke any one of ’em in pieces with his fingers; he was as much above ’em at any kind o’ work as he was in strength an’ good looks, yet that mis’ble gang used to chip him, poke36 fun at him, play tricks on him, until I used to feel as if I could a killed ’em myself, and I warn’t much better than they was. But never once did anybody hear an angry word or a bad word of any kind outer his mouth, never once did he miss a chance of doin’ even the worst of his tormentors a good turn, and never once did anybody have real cause of complaint about his work or anything that he did. And when he left the ship to go home because his agreed time was up, I never see such a carryin’ on, you’d a thought everybody on board had lost father and mother and all their other relations. Young man”—solemnly—“if you’re only one quarter as good a man as your father was, the ship is entirely37 blessed by having ye aboard, and I’m honoured at bein’ able to shake ye by the hand.”
There was a momentary38 pause as “Chips” sank[Pg 139] down on his chest again, and C. B.’s eyes glistened39 with heavenly pride at the honour paid to that dear father whom he so fondly loved. Then he said—
“My dear dad is all you say of him, and all I am or ever likely to be that’s any good I owe to him and mother. But he is a very quiet man, especially about himself, and so we knew little of what he had gone through. I understand it better now since I have been whaling myself. I thank you with all my heart for what you have said about him, it has done me more good than you can possibly imagine.”
There was rather an awkward pause after this, as if the other members of the half deck hardly knew what to do with such a prodigy40 as they now believed they had got in their midst. But the carpenter came to the rescue by saying—
“Looky here, youngster, your father had a very tuneful voice of his own, and although he didn’t talk much he would sing by the hour, all about God and heaven and the like, and my! but it made me feel right good. D’ye happen to take after him in that?”
C. B. flushed a little and replied—
“Since I’ve been to sea I’ve never sung a note except humming to myself. But I used to sing at home a good deal, and I’ll be very glad to try if you like. I only sing hymns41, though.”
“That’s quite good,” hastily answered the carpenter, “your father didn’t sing anything else either, an’ I don’t suppose any of us will know the difference. We’re all more or less heathen, you know.”
So without further pressing C. B. lifted up his sweet tenor42 and sang “O God of Bethel,” amid a silence that was positively43 painful in its intensity[Pg 140] of attention. And as soon as he had finished he was disconcerted by a very tempest of applause and vociferous44 shouts of “Same man sing agen. Bully45 for you, old hoss,” etc., etc. And nothing loth C. B. sang again and again, his repertoire46 being tolerably extensive and his memory as good as his bringing up would naturally make it, until tired out he had to cry off. Then, and not till then, it was found that all hands in the ship, forgetting the gam, had crowded as near to the half deck as possible, charmed by the sweet strains.
The whole incident brings forcibly to my memory an experiment of my own once when gamming a ship called the Cornelius Howland off the Three Kings, New Zealand. I was one of the visiting boat’s crew, and after the usual topics of conversation flagged a song was called for. I explained that I had some pretensions47 to a voice, but could only sing hymns, for in the sect48 among whom I was converted it was esteemed wrong to sing anything secular49, and mortal sin to go to any place of amusement whatever. It was immediately explained to me that so long as I sang, the words did not matter in the least, especially as scarcely anybody would understand me. So I piped up instantly with a favourite of mine from Sankey’s book, “Through the Valley of the Shadow I must go.” It was received with shouts of joy, one man who was especially delighted saying, “Well, —— my eyes, that’s what I call a —— good song, d’ye know. I could sit and listen to that kind o’ singin’ all night.”
I humbly50 apologize for the blanks, but the reader will, I hope, feel as I did, that the forcible expletives they represent meant nothing to the speaker, who was only using his ordinary language. I only[Pg 141] know that I went on singing to the exclusion51 of everybody else, and was quite hoarse52 the next day from the unaccustomed vocal54 exercise, for we didn’t sing very much in my ship. After all, it was not much to be wondered at, for the polyglot55 crowd met with in the forecastle and half decks of a whaler has usually one gift in common—an intensely musical ear, although the execution of pleasing music is denied them in nearly every instance. And for instrumental music they usually have that truly infernal instrument, the accordion56, from which the most ingenious musician that ever lived can draw nothing but noise. So that a little real music is received with great joy.
At midnight the cry was heard, “Eliza Adams’ boat’s crew away,” and C. B. sprang to his post, but not before his new-found friend “Chips” had handed over to him his choicest treasure, a small parcel of well-thumbed books, ragged57 copies of Dickens and Charles Reade, with one or two others by less known authors, but all to C. B. a storehouse of wonders, a treasure unlocked. Then with a warm handshake they parted, C. B. feeling happier than he had done since leaving home. Never before had he realized how much he had craved58 for sympathy and the opportunity to express himself in terms of love and admiration59 for his Father in heaven. And when they presently reached the ship Captain Taber said to him—
“You seem to have had a pretty good time, Christmas. I heard you singing away and remembered how your folks used to sing. It must have been quite a treat to you to let loose again.”
C. B. said nothing, for he did not feel that any answer was required of him, but he longed with greater desire than ever to be able to talk about[Pg 142] the matter that lay nearest his heart. No one who has not been in a similar position can begin to realize what it means to be dumb upon the one topic that interests you. To feel that if you mention it to anybody you will not only not be understood, but your words will be construed60 as an insult. But he gave a great sigh and took the matter quietly to the Lord as was his wont61, feeling much comforted thereby62, strengthened to wait and endure as long as he should be called upon to do so. And all unknown to him relief was at hand.
Two days after meeting with the Matilda Sayer the crow’s-nest reported whale in the usual manner. But this time it was a lone63 whale of very large size steadily64 making a passage across the ground at a leisurely65 pace. Now a lone whale is always potentially very dangerous, because his loneliness is due to the fact that he has been cast out of the society of his kind. A big bull whale only maintains his position as leader of the school as long as he is able to beat all aspirants66 to the dignity. And as the young bulls growing up are continually striving to attain67 that position, it will easily be seen that to keep it the holder68 must be of exceptional strength and vigour69, while the day will surely come when in the natural order of events he will have to abdicate70, which does not mean that he may take an inferior position in the school, but that he must leave it altogether and from henceforth until the end, which may be many years distant, he must roam solitary.
But this condition of existence for the whale naturally means that he becomes morose71, savage72 and wary73. And if he should in addition have been the object of attack by whalemen and have got away from them, he becomes doubly dangerous because[Pg 143] of the never-to-be-forgotten lessons he has learned as to how to act, and also because it usually happens that he carries with him, imbedded in his flesh, some rankling74 fragments of bombs and certainly a galling75 harpoon76.
Now in consequence of these well-known facts concerning the lone whale, it is usual to approach him with considerable caution. But there are many whalemen to whom caution in dealing77 with their gigantic quarry78 is a word of no meaning, they are reckless in the extreme, and no amount of disaster ever seems sufficient to teach them. Of such was Mr. Merritt: that strange composed man took fire within when approaching a whale. He “saw red” as the saying is, and although handling his boat and using his weapons with consummate79 skill, he had not one iota80 of prudence81 in his whole make up.
Now on this momentous82 occasion, because it was a lone whale, Captain Taber ordered the chief and fourth officers away, keeping the other boats in readiness to lower of course should there be any necessity, but not anticipating that more would be needed. It was a fine day, but the wind was high and the sea was correspondingly heavy. According to etiquette83 Mr. Winsloe was first on the whale, into which Pepe with his usual skill planted both irons right up to the hitches84. Mr. Merritt lay off a little with his boat, noting with some surprise that no frantic85 wallowings and struggling followed the dart23. Assuming, as was most natural, that Pepe had failed to strike the whale, he pulled up rapidly, having dowsed his own sail, to where Mr. Winsloe’s men were busy getting their mast down.
When within a couple of boat’s lengths of them all were horrified86 to see the huge black head of the[Pg 144] whale suddenly rise ghost-wise on the port bow of the boat, while the gleaming pointed87 lower jaw88 emerged from the water on the starboard side. The view was only momentary, for as they gazed horror-stricken they saw the great jaws89 close, crashing through the flimsy sides of the boat as if she were of so much paper, and with a yell that rang high above the roar of wind and sea the crew sprang clear of the wreck90 for their lives. But C. B.’s eagle eye noticed on the instant that the harponeer had disappeared, and in a second he had leapt from the boat into the vortex caused by the wallowing of the whale, dived and caught at a black mass far beneath the surface, the body of Pepe entangled91 by the whale line. Fortunately at that moment the whale, disdaining92 to seek safety in flight, returned to the surface, and consequently there was little difficulty for such a powerful expert as C. B. to bring his prize to the surface, free him from the line, and assist him back to the boat. I say assist, for Pepe, though grievously injured, had never lost consciousness, and in consequence was able to make some feeble attempts to help himself.
By the time he had been hauled inboard the rest of the crew had been rescued and the bight of the line, which C. B. had dropped as soon as he had cleared it from Pepe’s limbs, was picked up and taken through the notch93 in the bows, displacing their own line. Now Mr. Merritt was in his element, danger and difficulty of any kind seemed to give the needed stimulus94 to his otherwise sluggish95 nature. Charging the rescued crew to double bank the oars53, and placing the injured man in the bottom of the boat, he changed ends with C. B. and awaited the onslaught of the whale.
That monster played the usual waiting game,[Pg 145] just appearing for an instant to spout, and then only exposing the point of the snout where the spiracle or blow-hole is situated96. He was waiting his opportunity to perform the same operation on the second boat as he had done on the first. But Merritt seemed to have placed himself in absolute correspondence with the whale’s mind, for each time that either the great flukes or the ponderous97 jaws appeared above water the boat by a quiet order had been driven to a safe distance, and the threatened blow or bite did not take effect. In fact the queer yellow man was playing the waiting game also, knowing that the whale’s exertions98 were rapidly tiring him out.
For, strange to say, vast as is the strength possessed by these monsters, they tire very soon when they have to exert themselves much. And it is only when they are allowed to take things easily, as sometimes happens through cowardice99 or unskilfulness on the part of the whalemen, that they are able to weary out their aggressors and finally emerge the victors in the long fight. At last Merritt saw with a chuckle100 of delight that the whale was going to rush him head and head as we call it. He had his bomb gun ready to hand, and laying down his hand lance he put it to his shoulder, crying—
“Now, stern all hard and keep her just as she heads, Christmas.”
With so much power at the oars the boat rushed swiftly astern as the whale came rushing on, the great head rearing high out of water and exposing the gleaming white cavern101 of the throat.
Coolly, as if ashore102 at some practising ground, Merritt took aim and pulled the trigger. There was a splash, a report, and an appalling103 commotion104 in the sea ahead of the boat, in the midst of which[Pg 146] another report was heard, the explosion of the bomb within the whale’s body. “Way ’nough,” shouted Merritt, and the boat stopped a cable’s length away from the place where the mighty35 mammal was tearing up the deep in his Titanic105 death throes. For a few moments the scene was appalling, almost akin14 to a submarine volcanic106 eruption107, then the uproar108 suddenly ceased and the magnificent beast lay dead, listlessly tossing upon the waves which the exuding109 oil from his wounds turned into smooth hummocks110 of water quietly rising and falling around.
The tumult111 had hardly subsided112 when the second boat ranged alongside with orders to Mr. Merritt to return at once with his overmanned boat. And he obeyed cheerfully, because nothing is more annoying than to try and work in a boat where the hands, by reason of their being too many, get in one another’s way, this being especially so when, as was now the case, one man grievously hurt was lying in the bottom of the boat. They soon reached the ship and climbed on board, Mr. Winsloe hastening to the skipper and reporting the catastrophe113, while all hands rallied on to the falls and ran the boat up with Pepe’s unconscious body in it. He was tenderly lifted out and carried aft on to a mattress115, where his clothes were removed, disclosing the severe nature of his injuries. The whale had evidently nipped him sideways, for the great teeth of the lower jaw had made eleven ghastly bruises116, each four or five inches across, and in three places the clothing was driven deep into the blackened flesh. Three of the largest ribs117 were broken, and the right arm was horribly lacerated by the whale line being twisted round it under a great strain.
But owing to the bluntness of the teeth there[Pg 147] had been no loss of blood, except in so far as it had blackened and spread under the skin, which of course was highly dangerous from the possibility of mortification118 and the absence of any but the rudest surgery. However, all that could be done for the poor wretch119 by way of cooling lotions120 and bandages was done, and he regained121 consciousness to fall into a refreshing122 sleep.
Meanwhile the crew had toiled123 fiercely under the direction of the mate to get their prize alongside, finding as it was hauled near that its dimensions were more imposing125 than they had imagined. Measured along the rail it was roughly seventy feet in length, which is as far as is accurately126 known about the limit of size for a cachalot, while as it lay on its side, its jaw parallel to the ship, it looked as imposing in size as a vessel of two or three hundred tons bottom up. The fluke chain was passed without difficulty, and all the available force of harponeers and officers that could get at it attacked it at once with almost desperate energy, for it was getting late in the day, the night promised to be very dark, and none relished127 the prospect128 of pursuing that gigantic task without other light save that afforded by the feeble cressets. To Mr. Merritt and C. B. fell the task of severing129 the monstrous130 head, a labour which it is most difficult to realize. There is but a slight crease131 in the place where a neck ought to be, and here the carcass is nearly twenty feet through—a mass of muscle and sinew with scarcely any soft parts, and right in the centre of it the huge ball and socket132 joint133 of the vertebrae which is composed of bones nearly two feet thick. And if those spades plunging134 down into the depths of that mass darkly (for it is impossible to keep the scarph open) should miss the joint, as it is exceedingly[Pg 148] likely they may, the additional work is tremendous. I have seen this task occupy the labours of the whole of the officers and harponeers of a ship, relieving one another at frequent intervals135, for a whole day.
But this huge toil124 is but little greater than that which is being prosecuted136 at the same time by the others, all of whom are balanced upon the precarious137 plank138 of the cutting in stage, suspended far out over the side and springing to every roll of the ship. There is the junk to be divided from the head, a mass weighing eight to ten tons cut diagonally from the lower point of the upper jaw, and there is also the huge oblong mass of the case, or really half the remainder of the head, to be cut through, where a careless lunge of the spade may cause the leakage139 of all the valuable spermaceti which it holds in a liquid state. In this immense task strength avails little unless allied114 to skill, and skill is of small use without strength and endurance to keep driving the spade in the right place.
In a small whale, as I have hinted before, these operations are much simplified, because the head can be cut off and hoisted on deck, where the work of severing junk and case is quite easy. But as now the whale was of the largest size and most of the work had to be done upon the huge masses rolling and tumbling in the unquiet sea beneath, all the strength, patience, and endurance possessed by the workers were needed to the very limit. At last the head came off, and a great groan140 of relief went up from Merritt and C. B., whose arms felt as if they would drop off through sheer weariness. But there was no prospect of rest, the only relief they could hope for was a change in their movements bringing a different set of muscles into play. The[Pg 149] blubber hook had long been in position affixed141 to the eyepiece, and no sooner did the huge mass of the head surge astern than the high clear voice of the captain rose—
“Heave away there cheerily now, I want to see how quick ye can skin this whale.”
He was answered by an incessant142 clattering143 of the pawls as the windlass brakes flew up and down, and the first blanket piece of blubber, a foot thick and nine feet wide, rose majestically144 into the air.
As soon as the blocks of the tackle came together the windlass stopped, while the captain, armed with a formidable boarding-knife like a cutlass blade stuck in a long wooden handle, cut a big circular hole in the centre of the blanket piece, thrust the strap145 of the waiting tackle through it and secured it by a large wooden toggle, shouting as he slipped it into its place, “Heave on yer whale, my hearties146, heave on yer whale: surge on yer piece!”
“Oh what a jargon,” I think I hear some reader say wearily. I’m sorry, but it can’t be helped. It only means that the men at the windlass heave on the second tackle and let the fall of the first slip round the windlass barrel. Then as soon as the second tackle has taken the strain “Vast heaving” is called, while the captain with his boarding-knife cuts through the blanket piece high above the hole he made for the securing of the second tackle and the mass, now disengaged, is lowered into the blubber room.
It sounds like a lengthy147 process but really is not, for in the present instance the captain’s appeal was answered so well that in twenty-five minutes the whole of that vast carcass was denuded148 of its blubber and had floated away, the centre of a ravening149 horde150 of sharks.
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