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...Nobody could have been more dismayed than Captain Pollard when he headed back to his stricken ship. "My God, Mr. Chase, what is the matter?" he cried. And from Mate Chase, bobbing with other survivors in a small boat, came the laconic answer: "We have been stove by a whale...
Around the Horn. The Massachusetts mainlanders who settled Nantucket in the late 1600s, Stackpole believes, had little other choice of occupation. Their small island was hardly suitable for much farming, whereas whale oil could be a rich cash crop...
...Jawn," the latest namesake of several distinguished Harvard men and U.S. presidents, is a 64-year-old Birnik Eskimo, who has traveled the world, had his furs taken by the Russians, and has captured a white whale--unassisted--in his kyack. He was the most amusing, though not the most important discovery of Peabody Museum's expedition to the far north last summer...
...which they dug to the middle of a room. Upon their return last summer, they continued digging and found that the room was part of a five room house. The Eskimos, research revealed, lived in semi-subterranean houses, with sod block walls erected around frames of drift wood and whale bones. This form of building is unique at barrow, for most other Eskimo dwellings are single room houses of smaller size...
Inside the Whale, the other long essay in this volume of previously uncollected articles, is basically a critique of Menry Miller. Its greatest fascination, perhaps, lies in the contrast it reveals between Orwell and Miller. Where Orwell devoted his full attention to the world of reality, Miller's trick was to turn his back on it--not denying, just ignoring it. In the midsection of the essay, Orwell digresses to give a superb pocket survey of twentieth century English literature...