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countenance with an approving and benignant 

 smile ; while a half-filled ship often clouds the 

 brow, deranges the spleen, obstructs the biliary 

 ducts, and stops the joyful and generous action 

 of the heart. Especially would this be so had 

 the crew of the half-filled ship been permitted 

 to rest one day in the seven, according to the 

 commandment. 



Occasionally a master, an officer, or a sailor 

 hints that he would be glad to rest on the Sab- 

 bath, according to the dictates of his conscience ; 

 but this he may not do, except at the risk of 

 losing his ship and being thrown out of employ- 

 ment, and he will therefore conclude that Sab- 

 bath whaling with him, at least, is a work of 

 necessity. 



Kev. Titus Coan, an honoured missionary at 

 the Sandwich Islands, who has had much to do 

 practically with whalemen, says, with not less 

 truth than with a justifiable irony, that there 

 are some captains "who will consent to be very 

 pious, and hold religious meetings on the Sab- 

 bath, when there are no whales. Of course, 

 they always keep a man at ' mast head,' on the 



