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Throughout
the
Pacific
,
and
also
in
Nantucket
,
and
New
Bedford
,
and
Sag
Harbor
,
you
will
come
across
lively
sketches
of
whales
and
whaling-scenes
,
graven
by
the
fishermen
themselves
on
Sperm
Whale-teeth
,
or
ladies
'
busks
wrought
out
of
the
Right
Whale-bone
,
and
other
like
skrimshander
articles
,
as
the
whalemen
call
the
numerous
little
ingenious
contrivances
they
elaborately
carve
out
of
the
rough
material
,
in
their
hours
of
ocean
leisure
.
Some
of
them
have
little
boxes
of
dentistical-looking
implements
,
specially
intended
for
the
skrimshandering
business
.
But
,
in
general
,
they
toil
with
their
jack-knives
alone
;
and
,
with
that
almost
omnipotent
tool
of
the
sailor
,
they
will
turn
you
out
anything
you
please
,
in
the
way
of
a
mariner
's
fancy
.
Long
exile
from
Christendom
and
civilization
inevitably
restores
a
man
to
that
condition
in
which
God
placed
him
,
i.e.
what
is
called
savagery
.
Your
true
whale-hunter
is
as
much
a
savage
as
an
Iroquois
.
I
myself
am
a
savage
,
owning
no
allegiance
but
to
the
King
of
the
Cannibals
;
and
ready
at
any
moment
to
rebel
against
him
.
Now
,
one
of
the
peculiar
characteristics
of
the
savage
in
his
domestic
hours
,
is
his
wonderful
patience
of
industry
.
An
ancient
Hawaiian
war-club
or
spear-paddle
,
in
its
full
multiplicity
and
elaboration
of
carving
,
is
as
great
a
trophy
of
human
perseverance
as
a
Latin
lexicon
.
For
,
with
but
a
bit
of
broken
sea-shell
or
a
shark
's
tooth
,
that
miraculous
intricacy
of
wooden
net-work
has
been
achieved
;
and
it
has
cost
steady
years
of
steady
application
.
As
with
the
Hawaiian
savage
,
so
with
the
white
sailor-savage
.
With
the
same
marvellous
patience
,
and
with
the
same
single
shark
's
tooth
,
of
his
one
poor
jack-knife
,
he
will
carve
you
a
bit
of
bone
sculpture
,
not
quite
as
workmanlike
,
but
as
close
packed
in
its
maziness
of
design
,
as
the
Greek
savage
,
Achilles
's
shield
;
and
full
of
barbaric
spirit
and
suggestiveness
,
as
the
prints
of
that
fine
Dutch
savage
,
Albert
Durer
.
Wooden
whales
,
or
whales
cut
in
profile
out
of
the
small
dark
slabs
of
the
noble
South
Sea
war-wood
,
are
frequently
met
with
in
the
forecastles
of
American
whalers
.
Some
of
them
are
done
with
much
accuracy
.
At
some
old
gable-roofed
country
houses
you
will
see
brass
whales
hung
by
the
tail
for
knockers
to
the
road-side
door
.
When
the
porter
is
sleepy
,
the
anvil-headed
whale
would
be
best
.
But
these
knocking
whales
are
seldom
remarkable
as
faithful
essays
.
On
the
spires
of
some
old-fashioned
churches
you
will
see
sheet-iron
whales
placed
there
for
weathercocks
;
but
they
are
so
elevated
,
and
besides
that
are
to
all
intents
and
purposes
so
labelled
with
"
Hands
off
!
"
you
can
not
examine
them
closely
enough
to
decide
upon
their
merit
.
In
bony
,
ribby
regions
of
the
earth
,
where
at
the
base
of
high
broken
cliffs
masses
of
rock
lie
strewn
in
fantastic
groupings
upon
the
plain
,
you
will
often
discover
images
as
of
the
petrified
forms
of
the
Leviathan
partly
merged
in
grass
,
which
of
a
windy
day
breaks
against
them
in
a
surf
of
green
surges
.
Then
,
again
,
in
mountainous
countries
where
the
traveller
is
continually
girdled
by
amphitheatrical
heights
;
here
and
there
from
some
lucky
point
of
view
you
will
catch
passing
glimpses
of
the
profiles
of
whales
defined
along
the
undulating
ridges
