WHALERS AND WHALING. 



long voyage. Every emergency must be anticipated and provided for, 

 and the stores and provisions stowed away with a lavish hand, for 

 who knows how long the good ship may be cut off from fresh sup- 

 plies? So into the hold go one hundred and fifty barrels of salt beef, 

 seventy-five barrels of salt pork, thirty barrels of flour made up in 

 bread, twenty barrels of uncooked flour, three hundred gallons of mo- 

 lasses, two hundred pounds of coffee, five hundred pounds of sugar, 

 and corresponding quantities of meal, rice, beans, dried apples, butter, 

 cheese, ham, codfish, tea, raisins, vinegar, sperm candles, fresh water, 

 oak and pine wood, staves, heading and iron hoops for barrels, riv- 

 ets, sheathing, copper and yellow metal, sheath nails, coppering nails, 

 tar, cordage boat boards, pine boards, flags, bricks, lime, canvas, cot- 

 ton twine, cotton cloth, tobacco, white lead, linseed oil, paint, liquors, 

 gun powder, and Heaven knows what besides. 



And here let me say, before I forget it, that the crews of these 



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