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of the whale fishery. As an old whaleman once 

 said in his own way, " Whales has feelings as 

 well as anybody. They do'nt like to be stuck 

 in the gizzards, and hauled alongside, and cut 

 in, and tried out in them 'ere boilers no more 

 than I do/' 



This may seem foolish, and let it go for 

 what it is worth. But if the business cannot 

 be successfully pursued without the flagrant 

 violation of the Sabbath now caused by it, and 

 the consequent disastrous effect upon the moral 

 and religious characters of those engaged in it, 

 no well-grounded Christian will be in doubt as 

 to its ^lawfulness and mmorality. Whale 

 ships, almost without exception, desecrate the 

 Lord's day, by taking their game and making 

 way with it just as on any common day. They 

 pay no practical regard whatever to the great 

 law of the Sabbath, seeming utterly to forget 

 the combined prophecy and principle, 



" Who resteth not one day in seven, 

 That soul shall never rest in heaven !" 



But of this more hereafter. Meanwhile, let me 

 say to any seamen that may chance to read these 



