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fish, and no water except what they had caught in the line- 

 tubs. Some of them had lain down to die two days before 

 they saw the ship, and all of them were so weak that they 

 could scarcely support their weight. Captain Durfee, after 

 cruising for several days in the vicinity, was making the best 

 of his way to Oahu with the remnant of his crew, having 

 given up all hopes of ever seeing any of his officers or crew 

 again, when the bark Hanseat spoke him, January 20th. He 

 was not more surprised than delighted to find his men all 

 safe, and receiving all attention possible, as the third mate 

 was a brother. 



D, p. 231. 



OF the twenty thousand men who go in jeopardy of their 

 lives under every accessible line of latitude and longitude, 

 upon the great highway of nations ; who, on an average, are 

 exiles from home and country, from the social delights and 

 most of the comforts of life for three or four years at a time, 

 on purpose to bring back the means of enriching the owners 

 of the whale ships, and of adding to the comforts and embel- 

 lishments of the millions who are spared these privations, 

 what can be said ? what shall be done for thein ? 



Very encouraging it is that, of late, some attention is given 

 to this class of men. The fact that they are human beings 

 begins to be recognized ; nor are they altogether forgotten, 

 as some notices of their condition and wants clearly prove. 

 It could not be expected that our stately and dignified quar- 

 terlies would notice, except in the most general and gingerly 

 manner, the worst features of the whaleman's case. You, 

 however, who are fully committed to the work of philan- 

 thropic and Christian reforms, who do not fear to speak out 

 plainly and boldly, who care more for the groans and degra- 

 dation of humanity than for the frowns of its oppressors, who 

 love to plead for the dumb, and whose honest boast it is that 



