Chapter 87

On Page 326, Parkman uses a hyphen in whale-boat, which is inconsistent with his usage of the word in these two volumes. There are two other occurrences of whale-boat: 1) On Page 271, as part of a quote, and 2) On Page 323, as part of the quote. The presumption is that Parkman had no choice in the spelling of quoted text. There are twelve occurrences of whaleboat in the text without the hyphen. There was one additional case where whale-boat was hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing (see the detailed notes for Chapter 21). That word was transcribed as whaleboat. We made no change in the sentence: At the end of October, leaving seven hundred men at Oswego, Shirley returned to Albany, and narrowly escaped drowning on the way, while passing a rapid in a whale-boat, to try the fitness of that species of craft for river navigation. However, this usage is an outlier.