The ship-master's assistant and owner's manual containing general information necessary for merchants, owners and masters of ships, officers, and all other persons concerned or employed in the merchant-service, relative to the mercantile and maritime laws and customs
The Ship-Master's Assistant, and Owner's Manual Chapter XXIV, "Southern Whale Fishery", pp. 847-858, and Chapter XXVI, "Newfoundland Fisheries", pp. 929-935, contain very good general information on British whaling".--From Barbara Johnson Whaling Library catalog.