As with the Hawaiian savage, so with the white sailor-savage. With the same marvellous patience, and with the same single shark tooth, of his one poor jack-knife, he will carve you a bit of bone sculpture, not quite as workmanlike, but as close packed in its maziness of design, as the and full of barbaric spirit and suggestiveness, as the prints of that fine old Dutch savage, Albert Durer.
Wooden whales, or whales cut in profile out of the small dark slabs of the noble South Sea war-wood, are frequently met with in the forecastles of American. Some of them are done with much accuracy.
Nor when expandingly lifted by your subject, can you fail to trace out great whales in the starry heavens.
Wooden whales, or whales cut in profile out of the small dark slabs of the noble South Sea war-wood, are frequently met with in the forecastles of American. Some of them are done with much accuracy.
Nor when expandingly lifted by your subject, can you fail to trace out great whales in the starry heavens.