238 THE WHALEMAN S ADVENTURES. 



in the end troubleth his own house. Whaling 

 captains and owners are seldom willing, for the 

 honour of GOD or regard to his law, to forego 

 the profits which they think accrue from Sab- 

 bath whaling ; and therefore, once at sea on 

 whaling ground, they are unwilling to stop and 

 take breath for a long Lord's day. 



Oil got on the Sabbath burns as well, sells 

 as well, and, they think, spends as well as oil 

 got lawfully on week days. Not to use the 

 Sabbath in their gainful business, they think 

 would be losing one seventh part of their time, 

 neglecting one seventh of their chances, keep- 

 ing them one seventh longer out, consuming 

 one seventh more provisions, exhausting one 

 seventh more of patience and spirits, and per- 

 haps, in the end, leaving them with one seventh 

 less of oil than ships that use all days alike, and 

 one seventh less of everything but a good con- 

 science and the favour of God. 



To balance these, we have only to offer, 

 without swelling the list, as might easily be 

 done, with other items, that keeping the Sabbath 

 would be likely to make whalers three sevenths 



