152 THE WHALE AND 



Feelings of the Survivors. The Heart under the Pea Jacket. 



was no hope, that our shipmate was gone, never 

 more to return ! How silently we glided along- 

 side of the ship, and hoisted in our other poor 

 shipmate, now lamed for life ! 



" Ah, that some of those people who look 

 upon sailors as little better than brutes, and 

 who know little or nothing of the kind feelings 

 and strong affections that are hid under their 

 rough outside, could have seen what I saw on 

 board that ship. Even their hearts would melt ; 

 and they would find it is not always the polish- 

 ed and educated, the smooth-faced and hand- 

 some man, that has the warmest heart or the 

 most generous feelings.") 



How true is all this, and how often has it 

 been proved in my own intercourse with sea- 

 men. Under many a rough, pea-jacket bosom 

 there beats a heart, which you will be feeling 

 long for, and be slow in finding under the pur- 

 ple, and silks, and satins of fashion and frivoli- 

 ty. The poet Burns knew it when he sang so 

 sweetly : 



The heart aye's the part, ay, 



That makes us right or wrang : 

 Nae treasures, nor pleasures, 



Could make us happy lang. 

 It's no in titles nor in rank ; 

 It's no in wealth like Lon'on bank. 



