These leviathans of the deep are always a subject of great interest to persons at sea, and were certainly in remarkable numbers here in the Arctic Ocean.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Little by little the boat voyages after the leviathans extended further into the sea as the industry grew and the game became scarce and shy.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot
About five years later, the first "smoke boat," as the Indians called the steamers, reached Chicago, the pigmy forerunner of the fleet of huge leviathans that all the summer long, nowadays, blacken Chicago's sky with their torrents of smoke, and keep the hurrying citizens fuming at the open draw of a bridge.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot