Excerpt from The Cruise of the Cachalot: Round the World After Sperm Whales <p>This preliminary is the more needed for the reason alluded to in the Preface - the want of knowledge Of the subject that is apparent everywhere. The Greenland whale fishery has been so popularized that most people know something about it; the sperm Whale fishery still awaits its Scoresby and a like train of imitators and borrowers. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.