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Not to fill the page with a list of forgotten 

 names, it may be said that the smallest sum re- 

 ceived by any one of the crew was $56.23. He 

 was a young boy, presumably. One sailor, 

 Harry Baker, received $125.12. The total amount 

 paid to the crew was $13,289.77. The owners 

 took $28,120.33, or more than twice as much as 

 the entire crew who did the work. Charles W. 

 Austin was a boat steerer, one of the men on 

 whom the ship depended to fasten the small 

 boats to the whales, yet his pay, $441.33, amounted 

 to less than 76 cents a day for the voyage. It is 

 to be noted that no man except the captain re- 

 ceived in cash the sum set to his name. Every 

 man had been obliged to buy clothing out of the 

 "slop chest," a chest of goods carried by the 

 captain for sale to the crew, and most of the men 

 had had some money and an outfit advanced to 

 them on entering the ship. 



The pay of a skilled man like Austin seems 

 extraordinarily small now, but the record shows 

 that he shipped for the next voyage at a lay of 

 only one seventy-fifth. The pay of the captain 

 was only $4.36 a day for the voyage, less than 



