item: #1 of 8
          id: 1356
      author: Bullen, Frank Thomas
       title: The Cruise of the "Cachalot" Round the World After Sperm Whales
        date: None
       words: 117488
      flesch: 69
     summary: Under its hastening influence we made such good time that before dinner Vau Vau had faded into nothingness, mingling like the clouds with the soft haze on the horizon, from henceforth only a memory. Several times we saw other ships with whales alongside, but we got no show at all.
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        item: #2 of 8
          id: 21202
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: Fighting the Whales
        date: None
       words: 23670
      flesch: 85
     summary: This is itself a kind of small whale, but it is wonderfully strong, swift, and bold. The man in the crow's-nest, as they call the cask fixed up at the masthead, was looking anxiously out for whales, and the crew were idling about the deck.
    keywords: boat; captain; fish; head; know; line; lokins; man; mate; men; moment; mother; right; sea; ship; time; tom; water; whale
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        item: #3 of 8
          id: 21711
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: The World of Ice
        date: None
       words: 78669
      flesch: 76
     summary: The young can help themselves, more or less, and they have strength to stand their sorrows, with _hope_, blessed hope, to keep them up; but _poor_ old men and old women cannot help themselves and cannot stand their sorrows, and, as far as this life is concerned, they have _no hope_; except to die soon and easy, and, if possible, in summer-time, when the wind is not so very cold and bitter. he was the first awake in the morning and the last asleep at night; he always answered promptly to the first call, and was never known by any man living to have been seen with his eyes shut, except when he winked, and that operation he performed less frequently than other men.
    keywords: bear; buzzby; captain; cold; crew; day; deck; dogs; dolphin; ellice; esquimaux; father; feet; fred; good; grim; guy; hand; head; ice; left; look; man; mate; meetuck; men; mivins; moment; o'riley; party; poor; right; round; saunders; sea; set; ship; singleton; sir; sledge; snow; sun; time; tom; walrus; water; way; white; winter; work
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        item: #4 of 8
          id: 21714
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: The Red Eric
        date: None
       words: 99582
      flesch: 78
     summary: The present was such an occasion to little Ailie Dunning. Meanwhile the captain stepped up to the Portuguese sailors and told them to mind their own business, and let _honest_ men alone; adding, that if they did not take his advice, he would first give them a licking and then pitch them all into the river.
    keywords: ailie; boat; briant; captain; captain dunning; child; course; crew; day; dear; deep; doctor; dunning; eric; eyes; face; fact; glynn; good; gurney; hand; head; jacko; jane; jim; know; left; life; look; man; martha; means; men; mind; minutes; moment; monkey; order; phil; place; point; red; right; rokens; round; sea; ship; things; thought; time; voice; water; way; whale; white; wos; wot
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        item: #5 of 8
          id: 21731
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: Fighting the Whales
        date: None
       words: 24611
      flesch: 85
     summary: This is itself a kind of small whale, but it is wonderfully strong, swift, and bold. The man in the crow's nest, as they call the cask fixed up at the mast-head, was looking anxiously out for whales, and the crew were idling about the deck.
    keywords: boat; captain; fish; good; head; line; lokins; man; men; moment; mother; right; sea; ship; time; tom; water; way; whale
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        item: #6 of 8
          id: 23260
      author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
       title: The Two Whalers; Or, Adventures in the Pacific
        date: None
       words: 28519
      flesch: 79
     summary: A Christian friend is a valuable help on board ship, as well as everywhere else, observed Captain Bland. Instead, however, of returning at once on deck, I sat watching several other ships beating up to an anchorage, as we were, while I did not hear Old More Yet, the pilot, give the order about ship.
    keywords: alice; bland; board; boats; captain; captain bland; come; crew; deck; good; lady; mary; medley; men; sea; ship; shore; time; water; way; whale
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        item: #7 of 8
          id: 51910
      author: Lindsay, David Moore
       title: A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora
        date: None
       words: 54605
      flesch: 84
     summary: The steward had sailed Arctic waters for years, but he made no comment on this subject and never mentioned having heard it on other ships, nor did any; one else on board the _Aurora_ speak of it at all; in fact, we were probably the only two who noticed it. [Illustration: 0301] They sang so loud that we could often hear their weird songs coming over the water from other ships similarly engaged.
    keywords: afternoon; arctic; aurora; bear; board; boat; breakfast; cape; captain; coast; cold; crew; day; days; deck; dundee; fish; floe; good; head; ice; illustration; left; man; mate; men; morning; night; north; place; sea; seals; ship; shot; snow; sound; south; time; water; way; weather; whale
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        item: #8 of 8
          id: 63211
      author: Burns, Walter Noble
       title: A Year with a Whaler
        date: None
       words: 44802
      flesch: 87
     summary: We were now in sperm whale waters and the crews of the whale boats were selected. Hardtack biscuit soaked in buckets of sea water and then boiled in the bubbling caldrons of oil made relishing morsels.
    keywords: aboard; arctic; big; black; blow; blubber; boat; bow; brig; captain; crew; cut; dat; day; deck; feet; forecastle; gabriel; good; hands; head; ice; landers; line; man; mate; men; night; oil; old; sailors; saw; sea; ship; sperm; time; voyage; water; way; whale; whaling; white; winchester; work
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