384 " EVERY ONE IN HIS PLACE." 



pooneers attend to the coursing of the ship 

 during their watch on deck ; the two mates 

 and the speksioneer (who are also harpooneers) 

 are in charge of the watch; the boat-steerers 

 attend to the ropes on the forecastle ; the line- 

 managers to those round the mainmast, and also 

 to the cleanliness of the ship between decks ; 

 \ the boatswain, who is also a boat-steerer, is held 

 responsible for all work aloft; the skeeman [the 

 officer who superintends the ' stowing away f of 

 the blabber in the tanks], who is the head line- 

 man and also a boat-steerer, is responsible for 

 everything between decks. The remainder are 

 the foremast hands, who make themselves gener- 

 ally useful when required When all boats 



are away from the ship, there remain on board 

 the captain, doctor, engineer, ship-keeper, cook, 

 and steward. Each boat has a crew of six 

 men, five rowers and one to steer. No rudders 

 are fitted to the boats ; a steer oar, in conse- 

 quence of the rapidity with which, by its means, 

 a boat may be swept round, being invariably 

 used. The harpooneer is in charge of the boat, 

 and pulls the bow oar. It is his duty to strike 

 the fish. The line-manager pulls the stroke 

 oar, and it is his province, with the boat-steerer, 

 to see the lines coiled away clear, and to attend 

 them when running out, after a fish has been 

 struck." 



The weapons with which man goes forth to 

 hunt the ocean-monster are the hand-harpoon 

 ARI-OON. and the harpoon-gun. The latter is constructed 



HAND- 



