CHAPTER XX.

NANTUCKET.

The old Voyagers again.--Derivation of the Name of Nantucket.--Sail from Wood's Hole to the Island.--Vineyard Sound.--Walks in Nantucket Streets.--Whales, Ships, and Whaling.--Nantucket in the Revolution.--Cruising for Whales.--The Camels.--Nantucket Sailors.--Loss of Ship _Essex_.--Town-crier.--Island History.--Quaker Sailors.--Thomas Mayhew.--Spermaceti.--Macy, Folger, Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin 324