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CHAPTER XIII. 



PECULIAR VOCABULARY AND HAZARDS OF 

 WHALEMEN. 



" A perilous life, and hard as life may be, 

 Hath the brave whaleman on the lonely sea ; 

 On the wide water labouring, far from home, 

 For a bleak pittance still compelled to roam ; 

 Few friends to cheer him through his dangerous life, 

 Or strong to aid him in the stormy strife ; 

 Companion of the Sea and silent air, 

 The hardy whaleman has no envied fare. 



Anon. 



Leisure occupations Matter for the Dictionary Material 

 for Illustration Treatise on Gamming Appalling Forms 

 of Danger Fatal Incident Reflections. 



Midway between the False and Main Banks, Atlantic Ocean 

 lat. 34 W S., Ion. 47 W. Homeward Bound. 



I LIKE the eagerness and activity, and can 

 very well put up with the smell and dirt 

 which having dead whales alongside makes in a 

 whale ship. When in the position just noted, 

 we had a good measure of these contingents of 



