Cape Cod and the Old colony . PROVINCETOWN DOCKS WHEN THE TIDE IS OUT The Harvest of the Waters 183 ence and their daring into the early navies ofAmerica. Whale fishing came in at an early date, alongwith the mackerel and the cod, and was inlike fashion subject to the restrictions of Co-lonial law. The first voyagers regretfully sawfortunes slip away from them as the whalesfrolicked in the Bay and their ships were asinnocent of harpoons as they were of smallboats, and small hooks for the lesser game ofthe sea. But they atoned for early unpre-paredness, and the history of New Englandwhaling in
Cape Cod and the Old colony . PROVINCETOWN DOCKS WHEN THE TIDE IS OUT The Harvest of the Waters 183 ence and their daring into the early navies ofAmerica. Whale fishing came in at an early date, alongwith the mackerel and the cod, and was inlike fashion subject to the restrictions of Co-lonial law. The first voyagers regretfully sawfortunes slip away from them as the whalesfrolicked in the Bay and their ships were asinnocent of harpoons as they were of smallboats, and small hooks for the lesser game ofthe sea. But they atoned for early unpre-paredness, and the history of New Englandwhaling in its later thrills and greatness, beganin Truro, developed in Wellfieet and then cen-tered in Provincetown. Thence it extendedacross Nantucket Sound and Buzzards Bay toNantucket and New Bedford. It was a public duty in Plymouth, an obli-gation resting on every citizen, to watch off-shore for whales. If a whale was sighted aboat was at once launched to attack. Awhaling ground, or reservation for watching,was set apart on the No
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