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The following narra- tive of adventures, related at the request of the wHter, by the participant, and carefully transcribed without anv additions, will serve to present a picture ot a whaleman's life, fifty years ago. In this instance, it was one of unusual vicissitudes. Since the narrative, and even the above note was nrenared, the writer has heard with surprise and ^gre"^^^^^^ the death of the hero of the story This was also a great disappointment, for he had hoped to show him an annal of his voyages in print, w. e. b. Kennebunk, June 27, 1886. Pacific N.W:tt»toryDept. PROVINCIAL ^^BJ*^^^ VICTOBtA, B. C. B9G3R Benjf it was I His fat from S licved of Ber sister, nine y sons a eldest, streng Ralph Lydia that ( now c over ! door, thef< Ste owne Thel for h land fine 1 Benjamin Fnrbish was born at Kennebnnk— when It was a part of the town of Wells— Me., July 8, 1803. His father, Stephen Furbish, emigrateil to this place from Sanford. His mother, a pious woman, who be- lieved herself to be a ''faithful servant ;" was a native of Berwick, Me., in which town, at the house of her sister, she afterwards died, at the great age of ninety- nine years. She was the mother of ten children, seven sons and three daughters. The son«i were Rnfus, I lie eldest, who was a blacksmith, and noted for his great strength, Isaac, Benjamin, Stephen, John, Joseph and Ralph. The daughters were Naomi, the oldest cliild, Lydia and Mary. Their father, whose ocenpution was that of a blacksmith, had his shop near the house now owned by Mr. John Cousens. The shop stood over Scotchman's brook, and in the floor wus a trap door, through which water could be baled to supply the forgo. Stephen Ft;bish, senior, built the house hitt>ly owned by Capt. John Hill; Benjamin was born there. The father must have been a man of some influence, for his son says that he induced Mr. St(»ror to soil land to J. Usher Parsons, E^q., on which to build his fine mansion. 6 Benjamin, when a boy but ten years old, helped his father in the shop, and winle only a lad, was some- timcH called out of school to shoe a horse. Later, lie drove a cart to Biddeford, for his brother Rnfus, wh(», for a time, tried the trade of a butcher. While helping his brother, he recalls the incident of killing a young creature, solely to accommodate a friend, and of making $5 profit from the transaction. Eennebuiik of those days would appear oddly now. On the hill, lived Mr. Wm. Taylor, a ship builder; the yard of his house was full of timber, on which, ten or a dozen men were daily at work; hewing it to proper shape, when it was hauled to the Landing to be built into vessels. Mr. Furbish well remembers the visit of President Monroe to this town, (1817) when the streets had arches over them, and were decorated, all up and down with flags. In the procession formed, marched Judge Clark, Mr. Low, Dr. Emerson and other prom- inent citizens, while the boys brought up the rear. A salute was fired from the Kennebunk Artillery Co.'s brass pieces, under the direction of Capt. Bar- nabas Palmer, and a dinner was served in Jeilerds's hall. At that time, at the foot of the hill, stood the new house of Mr. Joseph Dane, which one day took fire, from a pan of hot ashes, and burned to the ground ; Mr. Elisha Chadbourne and Mr. Joseph Porter, his neighbors, hung wet blankets out to protect their houses. I> helped Inal , was some- hia brother ' a butcher, incident of mrnodate n 'ransactioii. oddly iiowr. lip builder; j > oil which, ewiug it to Landing to F President streets had a" up and J. inarclied Hier prom- > the rear. Artillery Capt. Bar- Jelferds's d the new took Are, Jgi'ouiid; oi-tei', his «ct their nenjaniin Fnrbisli sailed from New Bedford, on his first voyiige to soii, about the year eighteen hundred and tweiity-flvo*, in the winter time, in the ship Sophia, a whaling vessel. He engaged as blacksmith, but afterwards did seaman's work as well, and re- ceived able seaman's pay. The vessel carried thirty- two people, and was a very good looking ship, not with painted ports, nor "bright sides," but dark-sided, with a shade of blue, or green about her. Although ''modelled like a tub," she sailed well. She carried three whale boats hung on each side, each about twenty-six feet long; they lowered directly int« the water from the davits. Somethnes the men got into them before thoy wei-e lowered; at other times, jumped in afterwards. The ship carried, besides, two or three boats on skids over the quarter or after deck. There whs, on board, material to repair the boats, and for the carpenter to use in making new ones— boat boards, knees, nails, etc. The Sophia also carried a small supply of iron and steel, and two or three cases ♦Feb. 4, 1820.— N. Ik'dforU Wlialing Record. of copper sheathing. The vessel was sheathed with wood, and copper outside of it; as in the waters of the Pacific, whither she was bound, the worms are very destructive. At one time, later, the vessel leaked so badly, by reason of the worms gnawing into the planking, that the hold had to be broken out, and the carpenter slaked lime, and filled the place about with brick; working down there the greater part of a day. The blacksmith had a small forge, and an anvil strapped with iron to the deck. He did not work all the time, but when there was need, mended a cask, repaired the harpoons, and sometimes made new ones, also straps for the blocks, and chain plates; tiie old ones giving out in so long a voyage. The bob-stay chains frequently broke, and new links had to pnt in them. The fare on ship board, for the men, was salt beef and pork, hard bread, peas, beans, flour pudding, or duff, boiled in a bag, and pea cofiee. £ach whale boat has a crew of six men, one is a harpooner, another the boatsteerer, and a third the line tender. Whale boats are steered by an oar. Mr. F. pulled the tub our, as that nearest the bow is called, and it was his duty, when they were fast t« a whale, and the line was running rapitV.y from the tub; to throw water on it as fast as he could. The har- pooner and line tender pull at the oars. £ach boat carries two tubs of line, harpoons, lance, knite, hatchet, mast and sail to use if needed, some bread, and a boat keg filled with water; it being, often, very warm where they cruise. A whale is always rowed up to; never sailed upon, and is approached from either windward or leeward side; tl ■the har] strikes, part of boatstee Somet come u the bow while ©1 They h harpooi chase is The c stern w was als house o stecrer? We very vicini lathed with s waters of woi'ins are ssel leaked ig into the ut, and the ab»ut with part of a d ail anvil >t work all ed a cask, ••ew ones, !8; the old e bob-stav J to put ill IS salt beef adding^, or n» one 18 a third the oar. Mr. e bow is 5 fast t» a I the tub; The har- 2ach boat 5, knite, le bread, ten, very 'd upon, leeward 9 side; the whaleman's chief anxiety being to fasten the harpoon in the whale. When the harpoouer strikes, he cries, "Stern all I" and runs to the after part of the boat, and takes the oar from the mate, vr boatsteerer, who goes forward and takes the lance. Sometimes, when fast to a whale, the water will come up on the sides of the boat, and half fill it; often the bow dips under. The whale is frequently lanced while en the run, by pulling up to him with the line. They have even been known to be killed by the harpoon alone; but very often, before he is slain, the chase is a long one. The cabin of the Sophia was below decks, with stern windows, as was cuslomary then; the forecastle was also below decks, forward, the caboose, or co«k house on deck. The captain, three mates and the boat steerers were officers, and messed in the cabin. Well 1 all things ready, the Sophia sailed, and had a very favorable voyage until she got down int» the vicinity of Cape Horn, where bad w«ather was met 10 with, and the sliip pitched about nearly 31 days, (tlie|)ui of captain nnable to tell where they were) encountering late, g< cold blasts and snow storms, so that it was necessary to knock the ice off the rigging with clubs. One dark morning, just before dawn, "Land-hol" was shouted, and they soon enough beheld it -seemingly but a short distance ahead — looming up before them, '• it. Had "d tfone on However I ' 'J'ie rru del H'd a o-ood 'f Hud were ••d the wcl- M to l)e a ♦'"•m whahi. |'<1 went in l»efore the whale sud- •'^•'i'lg- the <5'iiet]y in t^'ie lance, lashing- all t'lcy, with boat jrear In's escape '•'8 out of vessel ; in once sent Jfi whales 11 lit of ten." In this voyage, the mate was most fortu- ate, getting two thirds of the oil. On whale ships, a lookout is kept from the fore and nain royal yards, by men sitting astride them, with, ometimes, the mate on the topsail yard also. Our eaman once got a prize for discovering whales first. t consisted of a hat, red fiannel shirt, pants and shoes, or "pumps." This is an old custom on whale ships. Often, they did not see whales for days together; once, the vessel was surrounded by them, even right under the bowsprit; several of these were lanced. They were of a sn»all variety, called "School Whale," yielding about thirty barrels of oil each. The ship captured, but one, one hundred barrel whale during this voyage, and so warm was the weather at the time, that the waste, in cutting up the blubber, was estimated to be ten barrels of oil, which ran over the decks, out of the lee scuppers. In these tropic climes, the deck is often so hot that the feel are blistered by walking on it. Shortly before this day, the ship Essex, of Nan- tucket, was stove in and sunk by an angry whale, in the Pacific; an event which our narrator well remem- bers. The mate of the Sophia told his experience, h« having once been in a boat, when a whale threw his jaw over the bow, and killed one of the crew. The same customs are observed on whale, as on merchant vessels. Such as the tolling of a bell to tell time, the keeping of watches, etc. The whale, when struck, usually goes straight down, sounding as it is called; and as he does so, shows nearly, if not quite the whole of his great body •ut of water. He sometimes stays below an hour, and on coming up blows the water from his lungs with 12 a sfreat puff. One day the boat to which Mr. F. be- longed was lowered for a whale, which when struck, made straight off in tlie'^eyeof the wind," occasionally sounding; it was killed, but the men were out all night, pulling hard by a line fastened to the whale's flukes, or tail, towing it to leeward, while the ship was beating up on short tacks to windward, to meet them. They did not reach her until the afternoon following. The Sperm whale is quick of hearing; when at rest, his eyes are a little above the surface ot the water. They subsist largely on the cuttle fish, or squid, and pieces of it, of the size of a cask, are sometimes seen floating on the ocean, by the whalemen. When a whale is captured, and alongside the ship, an iron hook nearly as largo as a man's arm is fastened into the blubber, haying a tackle and fall from it to the mast head, down to the windlass, and from there to the capstan ; with men at each. After the blubber is well started, the hook is taken out, and a billet of wood substituted. The blubber is then cut, and hauled until it reaches nearly to the top ^f the mast, when the long strip is severed at the whale, and let down between decks, where men are stationed to 18 cut it into short pieces called ''blanket;" and to mince it into small bits. It is then thrown up into hogshead tubs, and from there into the trying kettles. Onr informant has stood .up to his knees in oil and blubber as a mincer, between decks, his clothes all bloody and oily — dirty work, but clean money. The whale bone of the Right Whale is hoisted on board by the windlass. Some ships have two try kettles, others three, set in brickwork on the deck, secured by iron knees, to prevent injury from the rolling af the vessel, and made safe against fire. Alongside these, there is a ^reat copper cooling tank, holding two or three hogsheads. The kettles hold about three barrels each. The fires are fed by the scraps of blubber, which burn fiercely, making a dreadful smoke, and illumining the ship at night. The oil is baled from the kettles into the cooler, and after being there half a day is put into strong casks, holding three hundred gallons apiece, with staves an inch thick, but the oil is then so hot that the staves are sometimes eaten or charred by it. Many casks are kept on deck, lashed along the bulwarks, by means of iron rings let into the stan- chions. The oil often remains on deck a week, before being stowed away in the hold of the ship. When the hold is full, the between decks are stowed. Some empty hogsheads are kept on deck. The cooper keeps the casks in order. The nose, or "case" of the Sperm whale is cut off with a sharp instrument called a spade; the piece is then hoisted up, or inverted in such a way that the oil can be baled from it as from a barrel. A three hundred gallon cask is sometimes filled with pure oil from the "case" of a large Sperm whale. 14 The birds, which they commonly met at sea, were the gulls; when a whale was being cut up they gathered around in great numbers. In former days, whale ships cruising in distant oceans, tilled up with oil, and then brought it home; now it is often freighted for them in other vesi^els. At the time of which we write, there were pirates on the ocean especially in the West Indies ;Capt. Dimon Hubbard of this town was taken by them. They did not trouble whalemen much, but once, in the Pacific, when the Sophia was followed by a strange sail for a day and a half, the captain averred that it was a pirate, and that with his glass, he could see brnss cannon, and the deck black with men. After the ship had been out about twelve months and had much oil on board, she ran into port, where is now the city of San Francisco; here,* the cook, who had been sick, died and was buried. Previcusly, one of their men who was tishing for Bonito from the bowsprit fell into the water, and sank at once. The ship was laid to, and a large gun tired, but nothing more was suen of him. Although no Americans lived at the port they visited, they found here a party gathering furs, under the command of one Smith, who brought on board a present of teveral deer. Whalers touch at various places to get wood and water, and fresh provisions. At this place they could buy a bullock for a dollar, or a horse for a dollar. The Spaniards had large enclosures, or corrals, one full of horses another of beeves. While here, Mr. F. made some screws for the Spaniards' guns; they were charged a dollar apiece for them, the price of a bullock. At on the port tiliiios, t "111 p of \ of her of I Ik; nati> virions i The w «|)iiing licro the; \\n\\ and Once, ^'•ns Islan j;o()(l as ( ^lioro aiK for two ( I lie bird knocked jrrcw on I>Im('(? \\U Onr na ')ii(l tinal Pern, wl •^iiiayaqn cainn for no other and soldi lie did no their men used for their ban vessel thji teiik in til 16 tea, were up they I distant it home; r veswls. urates on t. Dimon They did le Pacific, sail for a it was a see brass ^e months >rt, where tlie cook, Ishing for ^ater, and large gun >ort they irs, under )U board a wood and hey could r a dollar. >rrals, one i-e, Mr. F. pus; they price of a At one time during this voyage the ship went into llie port of Calluo, where the people were ever at hos- lilities, the .Sophia laid under the guns of the American '^liipof war Const itulion, tlion in port. At night some of iierofflccrs came on bojird, telling the whalemen that tli(! natives would come oflT, and steal all their pro- vi>ions if they were n«t protected. The whaling vessel, in some severe weather, had spinng her foremast, below the cai»; accoi'dingly, hcie they got somo spare deck plank from the ship of ujir, and fished it. Once, on this cruij^c, the Sophia visited the (ialapa- ;'(ts Islands, far "Terrapin," a large turtle, nearly as ;:()o(l as Green Turtle. They wore found up on the ^lioro and to bring one to the boat was a heavy lift for two of the crew. These were guano islands, and ilio birds were so numerous that they could be knocked over with sticks. A few Cocoa-nut palms l!ire where they landed they calleti Uocadundy. Our narrator was nearly three years in the Sophia, and finally left her at a small port on the coast of Peru, which he calls "Decambres"' (not far below riiiayaqnil). It was to these coasts that vessels then lanie for copper. When he left the ship, there was no other vessel in port, but there were barracks there, and soldiers, who threatened to shoot him; although he (lid not understand their language, he well knew tlieir menniiig, and hid in a chimney, which the ju'iests used for baking bread, uiuil the soldiers had gone to their barracks, when he came out, and joined the first vessel that entered port; an English ship, built of teak in the East Indies, and larger than the one that lie had left, lie was two years in this vessel, and 16 thought himself better treated than when in the other The captain of the Enlish ship was so very neat that he disliked to soil the decks with oil. At one time when they were near one of the low, dark islands of the Pacific, he sent off and got a quantity of lemons which were used to make the decks look white. Sometimes they stopped to get wood, cocoa-nuts and other fruit, and would then fill the torepeak up with yams. While in the Pacific, on these voyages, Mr. F. visited a place on the American coast called Cape St. Joseph, where his ship took on board several hundred barrels of Sea Elephant oil, These great animal? were wont to go up on the shore to bask. The females were killed with a club, or a handspike, but the males were very ugly, hobbling towards the men with open mouths, roaring; they were shot in the throat with a musket ball. The blubber was tried out on shore. At this place, they found great quantities of kelp vessels u the other. i*y neat that Vt one time, k islands of '■ of lemons, ook white, oa-nnts and ilk up with 08, Mr. F. ed Cape St. ral hundred > up on the ^ith a club, y, hobbling ii'iug; they ball. The Jes of kelp 17 lioiiting on the ocean, so much was there, that the boats were often impeded in getting through it. At Cape St. Joseph were many turtles, which the crew caught, and subsisted on for nearly two months ; sometimes the decks would be corered with them ; they were called Green Turtles, aud two men could aiiicely carry one of the large ones. It was on leaving the £nglish ship, that our adveu- inrer met with his greatest loss. The vessel went to New Zealand, and while there, lay off the mouth of a liver, in this stream, tw« or three miles above, several yossols were at anchor. As the provisions were ircliing much reduced, the captain desired to lessen Ills crew, and gave Mr. F. and a seaman named Cooper, permission to leave, as they had asked it. Accord- iiij(ly they were paid off, and engaged one of the natives to take them in his canoe, with their luggage, to the vessels; after going a mile or more, out of sight of the ship, this fellow took them alongside a large war canoe, when they were at once carried on shore, where they found themselves encircled by threatening Siivages. For venturing some remark. Cooper received a wound in the head, which bled much. Their chests were broken open and the contents carried off by the armful, they were even robbed ©f most of the gar- ments thai they wore. Mr. F. lost not only all the clothing that he had drawn on shipboard, but something besides of far greater value to him— $1600 — all his earnings. When evening came, they were placed in the opposite cor- ners of a hut, while the natives slept on the floor. At midnight, our venturesome young sailor said to his companion, **Now is the time for us to escape," 18 ami bc<^iiiiiiiig by feeling carefully, first over one sleeix'i", then over another, I hey nmde their way out of tke hut, and to the shore, where they found a canoe, and safely reached one of the vessels. Ilei they were liindly received; ©iie man giviujf IheiriH hat, another a shirt, or jacket, until they were filtoil out again. The following morn' )g, three boat loads of nioii. carrying- guns, went d . n to the scene of the adven- ture, and threatened tu blow the natives out of ilic water if the m«ney was not returned. The sav ^c^ waded off up to their chins in the water, gritting ilitii' teeth so as to be distinctly heard. (Another custom of theirs was that of beating on the sides of ilioir canoes, which made a greal noise.) Mr. F. dcsin'd to fire on them here, but the captain said **N«, wo will get nothing by that, we must go and tell the uiis- sionarys." Accordingly tiiey went, but received, only, for an answer, *'The two men had no business to be there." Finding himself on board another English shii», lio was now obliged to go in her around Cai)e Horn to London. While there he saw one of the great London bridges made free. The King and Queen were present, dining on the bridge, and a ballo(>n, contain- ing two men waving flags, was sent up. Prom London he made a short voyage to Qneboe and back, for timber, in an old ship that would hardly hold together, and afterwards joined a whaling vessel, named Eliza, as blacksmith. After being out a week, the captain, who was prin- cipal owner, put back, to Portsmouth for his wife. Ag^ain they set sail, and cruised for nearly three years, 19 {nally {folngf into Sydney, N. 8. W., where the crew was paid off, the oil being sold. While here, Mr. F. witnessed the execution of nine men, called "Bush Rangers,'' all at one time. Such a ipectacle he de^ii*es nerer to see again. At Sydney, he shipped on a square rigged brig, belonging to Salem, U. S., and bvund to the Fecjee Inlands, for a cargo of Tortoise-shell and Beche-de- mer*. The Beche-de-mer is a brown worm, about as large as a man's wrist. It is found on the reefs, and virlien taken from the wa^er has the curious habit of turning its stomach inf'de out, as it were. These creatures are gathered by the natives, who sell them for 'Mittle or nothing," a scrap of calico, or piece of iron hoop. The natives fasten the iren into sticks, and with those rude implements dig out their canoes; as many as twenty savages being seen at one time, d"S> away. The Beche-de-mer was boiled in pots, then dried on *A Radiate— also called Trepang. 20 flakes over a slight fire until it was perfectly dry and hard. It is sold to the Chinese, who use it for making soups. Sometimes, the captain got the native chiefs on board, and held them as hostages for his men on shore; again, some of the brig's crew, with pistols in their hands, walked on each side of them. One Capt. Barteford, of Salem, who was on bi)ard, told Mr. F. that he once lost a vessel, and was the sole survivor of the ship's company, which was attacked by natives. He saved his life only by offering ihonj everything lie could think of. Once, the natives carao alongside the brig, with two brass cannon, which they had captured soraewiiere; the crew were obliged to fire on them, the vessel carrying four small guns. These savages would gladly give a pig in exchan!,^e for a dog; plenty of the former animals, of from 150 to 200 lbs. weight, could be bought of them. When many pigs were on deck they would fight, and once, one or two fell overboard, but were quickly rescued by lowering a boat. The Feejee Islands were well wooded. The bar- barous men, who inhabit them, wore no clothe"^, were tattooed, and had clay on their heads. Their noses were out through and their ears perforated. From the latter hung large iron rings. They were thought to be cannibals; as one day, two large war- canoes passed the brig with their bottoms paved with the bodies of victims. The chiefs sat in the sterns of the canoes, ten feet above their men. Having at last collected a cargo, dome of it being Tortoise- vessel set sajfo a sev away the also start* the captai Head, the was risinj anchors keel. Fi way. Oi lepsiired. While i ns blacksi had been engine, a each was up and h( 9C0WiJ WC oP" ..o th foi-p, (fur it is cottee, rice Good Hope 28 an old shop, which was standing, even when he was a boy ; afterwards, it iiad been bought by his father, of a man named Simpson, the price paid for it, was an old-fashioned, brass mounted clock. THE END. e the vessel ds returned >me; going iider of the lent twelve ither. His recognized n years for it., Boston; ?r to return jelf in busi- s, but using