Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . at might serve as thearched gate-way of a castle. Before this doorreposes a bulky fin that once cleft the ocean witha speed that put to scorn the swiftest craft ofthe hunters. In this window are rows of ivoryteeth where the sailors quaint conceits are ex-pressed in semi-barbaric carving. These are theteeth that, a hundred fathom down below thesurface of some lonely and uncouth sea, havetorn the limbs and flesh of the unfathomablesquid—have crunched up many a whale-boat per-haps, and the stout hearts that manned are the b
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . at might serve as thearched gate-way of a castle. Before this doorreposes a bulky fin that once cleft the ocean witha speed that put to scorn the swiftest craft ofthe hunters. In this window are rows of ivoryteeth where the sailors quaint conceits are ex-pressed in semi-barbaric carving. These are theteeth that, a hundred fathom down below thesurface of some lonely and uncouth sea, havetorn the limbs and flesh of the unfathomablesquid—have crunched up many a whale-boat per-haps, and the stout hearts that manned are the busy wharves covered with anchors,rusty cables, harpoons, hoops, and lances; stavesand empty oil-casks sounding under the blows ofthe cooper; there are gangs of caulkers and rig-gers refitting a craft battered by arctic and ant-arctic storms. Beyond, we see a vessel newlyarrived, by the assistance of a donkey-enginedischarging her oleaginous cargo, stored in casksof all sizes and shapes, covering the wharf withtlie golden liquid treasure. Here the gangers, 8. OIL-FXLLEES. clerks, supercargoes, oil-fillers, bung-starters, andscrapers i)ly their busy offices. Then comes a scene still more lively andunique. A cart rattles by, loaded with recentlydischarged whalemen—a motley and a savage-looking crew, unkempt and unshaven, cappedwith the head-gear of various foreign climes andpeoples—under the friendly guidance of a landshark, hastening to the sign of the Mennaid,tlic Whale, or the Grampus, where, indrunkenness and debauchery, they may soonestget rid of their hard-earned wages, and in theshortest space of time arrive at that conditionof poverty and disgust of shore life that must induce them to ship for another four yearscruise. Verily, the more one sees of this world, themore one is obliged to wonder at it! Your worldling, who boasts that he is blase,and professes to live under the motto ^hiil ad-miraii, is simply he who lives like a land terra-pin with his head drawn in, cas
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