You'll find whaleboats not only in his masterpiece but also in his story "Benito Cereno" & his novel "Mardi"
[DOC] [TLE] The Great Leviathan by Andrew Delbanco | The New York Review of ... [PAR] May 15, 1997 ... Not even the log of the Acushnet survivesonly brief notations on ... Melville left 
no description of his experiences on the Erie Canal, Parker tells .... and perhaps 
she thrilled to the stories that fell, in Parker's words, .... you'll do to give us the 
bare words and facts, but we come in to ..... Also in This Issue.