You'll find whaleboats not only in his masterpiece but also in his story "Benito Cereno" & his novel "Mardi"
[DOC] [TLE] HERMAN MELVILLE by Newton Arvin - Rutgers University [PAR] He was to be congratulated of course, but Nichols felt, as Melville himself ...... We 
know that, as a little boy, he had struck his father as not very buoyant or ......