“ There is a different compound, and a quite singular 1, which turns up in the program of this company, but which I
experience it to be quite puzzling adequately to describe.
This finished he turns the pelt inside out, like a pantaloon leg offers it a excellent stretching, so as practically to double its diameter and at past hangs it,
nicely unfold, in the rigging, to dry. Extending it on the forecastle deck, he now proceeds cylindrically to take away its darkish pelt, as an African hunter the pelt of a boa.
Now, as it soon turned out, what created this incident of the Rachel’s the much more melancholy, was the circumstance, that not only was
one of the Captain’s sons among the selection of the missing boat’s crew but among the quantity of the other boat’s
crews, at the exact time, but on the other hand, divided from the
ship in the course of the darkish vicissitudes of the
chase, there experienced been still one more son as
that for a time, the wretched father was plunged to the base of the cruellest perplexity which was only solved for him by his chief mate’s instinctively
adopting the standard method of a whale-ship in these kinds of emergencies, that is, when placed
concerning jeopardized but divided boats, often to pick up the the
greater part initial. ”