What is "whalemen"

Usage examples of "whalemen".

To be short, among whalemen, the harpooneers are the holders, so called.

For not only are whalemen as a body unexempt from that ignorance and superstitiousness hereditary to all sailors.

Where else but from Nantucket did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes to give chase to the Leviathan?

Had it not been for us whalemen, that tract of land would this day perhaps have been in as howling condition as the coast of Labrador.

Yes, it was the famous Father Mapple, so called by the whalemen, among whom he was a very great favorite.

Why did Britain between the years 1750 and 1788 pay to her whalemen in bounties upwards of £1,000,000?

And lastly, how comes it that we whalemen of America now outnumber all the rest of the banded whalemen in the world.

A few years ago this same plan was adopted by the Bay whalemen of New Zealand, who, upon descrying the game, gave notice to the ready-manned boats nigh the beach.

Not even at the present day has the original prestige of the Sperm Whale, as fearfully distinguished from all other species of the leviathan, died out of the minds of the whalemen as a body.

Hence, by inference, it has been believed by some whalemen, that the nor’ west passage, so long a problem to man, was never a problem to the whale.

And thereby whalemen distinguish this fish from other tribes of his genus.

Stubb, I think I have heard you say that of all whalemen you ever met, our chief mate, Mr.

But where this superiority in the English whalemen does really consist, it would be hard to say, seeing that the Yankees in one day, collectively, kill more whales than all the English, collectively, in ten years.

For this part of the Indian Ocean through which we then were voyaging is not what whalemen call a lively ground.

No wonder, taking the whole fleet of whalemen in a body, that out of fifty fair chances for a dart, not five are successful.