Whalemen Adventurers

by W. J. Dakin

To

THE MEMORY OF THE OLD SEADOGS WHO
SAILED OUT OF SYDNEY COVE 1791-1891

	I must go down to the sea again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.
	- MASEFIELD.
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Contents

Forward Preface to the Second Edition Preface Introduction
Chapter 1.	The Old-Time Whalers reach the Pacific and the First Australian Settlement is Founded
Chapter 2.	The Early Days of South Sea Whaling
Chapter 3.	Ancient Whaling Re-invented. The Rise of Australasian Bay Whaling
Chapter 4.	Australasian Bay Whaling (continued)
Chapter 5.	The Whalemen of 1810-1860 and their Adventures in the Pacific and in the Australian Bight
Chapter 6.	Deep-sea Whaling and Australia in the "Romantic" Days of Mosman and Ben Boyd
Chapter 7.	The High-water Mark and the Decline of Whaling
Chapter 8.	Whaling Extraordinary at Twofold Bay, which might almost be called a "Museum Piece" of Ancient Whaling in Modern Times
Chapter 9.	The Intermezzo - A Unique Use for a Whaler
Chapter 10.	Modern Whaling Commences with Guns and Steam, but the Yankees and the British Lose it to the Norwegians
Chapter 11.	Captain Larsen makes Modern Whaling a Success in the Southern hemisphere
Chapter 12.	Norwegians in Australian Waters between 1911 and the Great War
Chapter 13.	More about the Norwegians and Western Australia 1913-15
Chapter 14.	The Latest Phase in Whaling
Chapter 15.	For the Protection of the Whale
Chapter 16.	The Scientist and the Whale. The Age of a Whale and its Domestic Habits. Regulation and Extinction
Appendix I.	A Whaling Poem
Appendix II.	Some Comparisons and values
Appendix III.	Norwegian Government Regulations of 1929
Appendix IV.	Table 1. Sydney Customs Returns, 1826-1875 Table 2. Expenses and Profits of Whaling
Appendix V.	The Preliminary Draft Convention of the League of Nations for the Regulation of Whaling. Geneva, 1930
Bibliography.

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