THE AMERICAN WHALEMAN. 



CHAPTER VII. 



How to save Jack. — Mr. Deil, of Honolulu, tried successfully. — Run down 

 the Coast. — View of the Cordilleras. — Disappointed in the first View of 

 Peru. — Touched at Callao, and ran on to Payta, — Captain ran counter 

 to the Laws. — Chipman prepares to defend the Boat. — ^Pistol and Lance 

 drawn. — Liberty on Shore, and Effects of Aguadiente. — ^Adjourn to the 

 Calaboose. — Africa against Peru. — Chips joins the Company in poetic 

 Mood. — The good Captain's Advice and Warning. — Sail from Payta, 

 and anchor at Galapagos. 



To save Jack from himself, we must better his conditions 

 of existence ; to save him from the evils that beset him on 

 shore, we must reform ourselves, and be willing to reach out 

 the brotherly hand to welcome him on land, and to a better 

 life. We must develop his manhood and self-respect, and 

 thus lead him to a life of decency. These views are strength- 

 ened by the remembrance of the services of the good and 

 truly Christian seaman's chaplain at Honolulu, Sandwich Isl- 

 ands, the Rev. Mr. Deil, and the very marked effect his la- 

 bors had among the crowds of whalemen who frequent that 

 port on their passage to the distant grounds of Japan. He 

 boarded every ship in advance of the sharks, and extended 

 the welcome of a brother to the humblest and worst. Sit- 

 ting on a chest in the forecastle, he would inquire about the 

 voyage and the men's needs, informing them that a good li- 

 brary and a quiet, comfortable reading-room, with facilities 

 for writing home, were provided ashore. He not only in- 

 vited the men to these privileges, but also to his home, where 

 he said he would be glad to see them, and he generally left 

 a Bible for each man desiring one. And let me here alarm 

 the Christian hearts of the American people by. informing 



