230 THE WHALEMAN'S ADVENTURES. 



9. It is an unfounded presumption, that a 

 steady and well-grounded refusal to have nothing 

 to do with Sabbath whaling will produce dis- 

 content among the men. Experience has proved 

 that they like the rest of the Sabbath as well as 

 any other men, and are glad enough to have it 

 theirs for a constancy, though they would like 

 now and then to improve any rare chance offered 

 on that day as well as on any other. 



10. If no look-out is kept for whales on the 

 Sabbath, but the day is devoted to rest, they 

 will not often be seen that day, so as to be an 

 occasion of discontent. These two last propo- 

 sitions are drawn from the experience of this 

 ship, the Commodore Preble, during its present 

 Sabbath-keeping voyage, and will, I am well 

 convinced, be found true of every ship that shall 

 try the experiment. The captain became per- 

 suaded at the Sandwich Islands that he would 

 be wrong, and without excuse, to whale any more 

 on the Sabbath, and, with a new heart, he re- 

 solved to do so no more. 



He took one season afterward on the North- 

 west, but, for reasons which it were easy to 



