Show o DEN DAYS OF WHA WHALING ING The days of the time old whaling fleets when more than two hundred rigged full-rigged ships sailed out of New Bedford harbor on three and four four- year voyages to the most dist distant nt and dangerous seas were over more ore than half a century ago The right of ol Greenland wha whale of the Arctic Waters with his mouth full fun of whalebone and his cousin the sperm whale of tropical cal al' al waters bearing In Its head the precious spermaceti were practically exterminated b by those daring all-daring Iron- Iron nerved keen eyed Yankee skippers Their splendid ships the Annie B. B the Ma Mary y Jane the Eyed Blue Susan great lovers of th their ir wives and and- sweethearts sweet sweet- hearts were this race of gentlemen adventurers ad ad- r rotted rotted at tho the wharves or were were degraded to service as as' as coastwise and with them vanished a world of ol romance and adventure No men Iano in Ia inno inno no time more truly than they went down to the sea In Ia ships But when the pennant of the last time old-time whaling ship was hauled down forever there still stin proudly swam the oceans the vast or racer whale greatest of all his mighty kin To the sailing fleet of the old days the was an almost impossible prize because of its tremendous speed It was practically unmolested arid and mul mul- exceedingly In both North At At- antic lantic and Pacific waters It was the abundance of this leviathan leviathan levi levi- athan alban measuring ninety feet In length and weighing almost as many tons tons tons- bulking larger than a whole herd of e el elephants el- el which which was the inspiration of the modern whaling Industry |