Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker…Third Series, by "Sam Slick" (Phila.: Lea & Blanchard, 1840) p. 44:
        
        When you double Cape Horn, as yer in hopes for to do,
        There's a plenty of sparm whale on the coast of Peru.


Henry James Mercier, "Life in a Man-of-War, or Scenes in 'Old Ironsides' "(Philadelphia, 1841):

“Dobbs…had been for twenty or thirty minutes desperately engaged in drawling forth a song to which there appeared to be no end, the burden of which was the capture of a whale after a severe and bloody struggle.…
        “‘Why, damme, man, whilst you have been lowering the boats away in that song of yours, a good Nantucketer would have three whale turned up.’
        “‘Oh !…The marrow of the ditty is to come yet—when we get the fish alongside.’”