“There weekly arrive in this town scores of Green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery. They are mostly young, of stalwart frames; fellows who have felled forests and now seek to drop the axe and snatch the whale-lance. Many are green as the Green Mountains whence theyContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Gold Rush of Whaling in New Bedford (Herman Melville)”
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