250 THE WHALEMAN'S ADVENTURES. 



long survive the desecration of that holy day ; 

 when, too, the penitentiaries and pauper-houses 

 of Europe are disgorging upon your fair domain. 

 Up, and rescue it from profanation, or your 

 precious patrimony of liberty is gone !" 



The veteran Captain Scoresby, who, by age, 

 and experience, and judgment, is entitled to 

 speak on this subject with authority (having 

 gone through twenty-one of those perilous 

 voyages successfully, and killed some hundred's 

 of whales), says that, in the Greenland whale 

 fishery, much more perplexing, and more sub- 

 ject to sudden embarrassments, and far more 

 dangerous than the voyages commonly pur- 

 sued, ef I have known public worship to be 

 carried on so regularly that never a Sabbath 

 passed over, for several years together, without 

 one or more full services being performed. 

 During these voyages severe gales have com- 

 menced on the Sunday; dangers from rocks, 

 ice, and lee shores have threatened ; frequent 

 embarrassments from thick weather have oc- 

 curred ; yet time and opportunity were always 

 found for the worship of God. The success 



