Category: History - American
The author gratefully acknowledges his debt to FRANK WOOD and WILLIAM H. TRIPP of the Whaling Museum of New Bedford, for their splendid cooperation--and to CLIFFORD W. ASHLEY and his most admirable book “_The Yankee Whaler_”
The author gratefully acknowledges his debt to FRANK WOOD and WILLIAM H. TRIPP of the Whaling Museum of New Bedford, for their splendid cooperation--and to CLIFFORD W. ASHLEY an...
2. Part 2The term “barrel” was only used as a unit of measure:--a cask was spoken of as an eight barrel cask or a whale’s size was reckoned in so many barrels.