His CAPTORS. 95 



Towiiig a dead Whale. The Galvanism for weary Muscles. 



laborious, and fraught, too, with danger when 

 the ship is distant and nightfall at hand. Un- 

 der a fierce equatorial sun, to row for hours, 

 perhaps right to windward or in a dead calm, 

 with a carcass of seventy tons' weight dragging 

 astern, will blister the hands and strain the 

 muscles of the hardiest whaleman, and wearied 

 nature will sometimes give out. But it is 

 cheerfully endured for the end in view, of cut- 

 ting in, and trying out, and stowing down a 

 "hundred barreler," that will net to the ship 

 three thousand or fifteen hundred dollars, ac- 

 cording as it is a sperm or a right whale. If 

 money makes the mare go, so does oil the crew 

 of a "blubber hunter," from the green cabin- 

 boy to the sable doctor. 



