1Herman Melville, Redburn : His First Voyage, Garden City, New York : Doubleday Anchor Books, 1957, p. 37.
2Herman Melville, White-Jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-War, Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and The Newberry Library, 1970, p. 28.
3Herman Melville, Typee, in Herman Melville, vol. I, New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. , 1982, p. 12.
4Herman Melville, Moby-Dick: Or, The Whale, New York: Penguin Books, 2003, pp. 161-164.
5R.H. Dana, Jr. , Two Years Before the Mast, New York: The Harvard Classics, P. F. Collier & Son Corporation, 1937,p.6.
6A. B. C. Whipple, The Wha/ers, Alexandria. Virginia: Time-Life Books Inc. , 1979. p. 64.
7Herman Melville, "Benito Cereno", in Herman Melville, vol. III, New York : Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. 1984. p. 681.