For the First Time in 93 Years, a 19th-Century Whaling Ship Sets Sail
For the First Time in 93 Years, a 19th-Century Whaling Ship Sets S…
May 15, 2014
Smithsonian MagazineConstance Bond
In the early years of the nineteenth century, long before steam engines replaced sails, whaling ships crossed the Pacific with crews who understood that every hunt carried a chance of disaster. It was during these years that sailors began to whisper about a huge sperm whale that haunted the waters around Mocha Island off the coast of Chile. He was not the white creature that later stories described. His skin carried scars from age, weather, and the violence of past hunts. Barnacles clung to him.
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