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"
For
three
hundred
and
sixty
miles
,
gentlemen
,
through
the
entire
breadth
of
the
state
of
New
York
;
through
numerous
populous
cities
and
most
thriving
villages
;
through
long
,
dismal
,
uninhabited
swamps
,
and
affluent
,
cultivated
fields
,
unrivalled
for
fertility
;
by
billiard-room
and
bar-room
;
through
the
holy-of-holies
of
great
forests
;
on
Roman
arches
over
Indian
rivers
;
through
sun
and
shade
;
by
happy
hearts
or
broken
;
through
all
the
wide
contrasting
scenery
of
those
noble
Mohawk
counties
;
especially
,
by
rows
of
snow-white
chapels
,
whose
spires
stand
almost
like
milestones
,
flows
one
continual
stream
of
Venetianly
corrupt
and
often
lawless
life
.
There
's
your
true
Ashantee
,
gentlemen
;
there
howl
your
pagans
;
where
you
ever
find
them
,
next
door
to
you
;
under
the
long-flung
shadow
,
and
the
snug
patronizing
lee
of
churches
.
For
by
some
curious
fatality
,
as
it
is
often
noted
of
your
metropolitan
freebooters
that
they
ever
encamp
around
the
halls
of
justice
,
so
sinners
,
gentlemen
,
most
abound
in
holiest
vicinities
.
"
'
Is
that
a
fair
passing
?
'
said
Don
Pedro
,
looking
downwards
into
the
crowded
plazza
,
with
humorous
concern
.
"
'
Well
for
our
northern
friend
,
Dame
Isabella
's
Inquisition
wanes
in
Lima
,
'
laughed
Don
Sebastian
.
'
Proceed
,
Senor
.
'
"
'
A
moment
!
Pardon
!
'
cried
another
of
the
company
.
'
In
the
name
of
all
us
Limeese
,
I
but
desire
to
express
to
you
,
sir
sailor
,
that
we
have
by
no
means
overlooked
your
delicacy
in
not
substituting
present
Lima
for
distant
Venice
in
your
corrupt
comparison
.
Oh
!
do
not
bow
and
look
surprised
:
you
know
the
proverb
all
along
this
coast
--
"
Corrupt
as
Lima
.
"
It
but
bears
out
your
saying
,
too
;
churches
more
plentiful
than
billiard-tables
,
and
for
ever
open-and
"
Corrupt
as
Lima
.
"
So
,
too
,
Venice
;
I
have
been
there
;
the
holy
city
of
the
blessed
evangelist
,
St.
Mark
!
--
St.
Dominic
,
purge
it
!
Your
cup
!
Thanks
:
here
I
refill
;
now
,
you
pour
out
again
.
'
"
Freely
depicted
in
his
own
vocation
,
gentlemen
,
the
Canaller
would
make
a
fine
dramatic
hero
,
so
abundantly
and
picturesquely
wicked
he
is
.
Like
Mark
Antony
,
for
days
and
days
along
his
green-turfed
,
flowery
Nile
,
he
indolently
floats
,
openly
toying
with
his
red-cheeked
Cleopatra
,
ripening
his
apricot
thigh
upon
the
sunny
deck
.
But
ashore
,
all
this
effeminacy
is
dashed
.
The
brigandish
guise
which
the
Canaller
so
proudly
sports
;
his
slouched
and
gaily-ribboned
hat
betoken
his
grand
features
.
A
terror
to
the
smiling
innocence
of
the
villages
through
which
he
floats
;
his
swart
visage
and
bold
swagger
are
not
unshunned
in
cities
.
Once
a
vagabond
on
his
own
canal
,
I
have
received
good
turns
from
one
of
these
Canallers
;
I
thank
him
heartily
;
would
fain
be
not
ungrateful
;
but
it
is
often
one
of
the
prime
redeeming
qualities
of
your
man
of
violence
,
that
at
times
he
has
as
stiff
an
arm
to
back
a
poor
stranger
in
a
strait
,
as
to
plunder
a
wealthy
one
.
In
sum
,
gentlemen
,
what
the
wildness
of
this
canal
life
is
,
is
emphatically
evinced
by
this
;
that
our
wild
whale-fishery
contains
so
many
of
its
most
finished
graduates
,
and
that
scarce
any
race
of
mankind
,
except
Sydney
men
,
are
so
much
distrusted
by
our
whaling
captains
.
Nor
does
it
at
all
diminish
the
curiousness
of
this
matter
,
that
to
many
thousands
of
our
rural
boys
and
young
men
born
along
its
line
,
the
probationary
life
of
the
Grand
Canal
furnishes
the
sole
transition
between
quietly
reaping
in
a
Christian
corn-field
,
and
recklessly
ploughing
the
waters
of
the
most
barbaric
seas
.
"
'
I
see
!
I
see
!
'
impetuously
exclaimed
Don
Pedro
,
spilling
his
chicha
upon
his
silvery
ruffles
.
'
No
need
to
travel
!
The
world
's
one
Lima
.
I
had
thought
,
now
,
that
at
your
temperate
North
the
generations
were
cold
and
holy
as
the
hills
.
--
But
the
story
.
'
"
I
had
left
off
,
gentlemen
,
where
the
Lakeman
shook
the
backstay
.
Hardly
had
he
done
so
,
when
he
was
surrounded
by
the
three
junior
mates
and
the
four
harpooneers
,
who
all
crowded
him
to
the
deck
.
But
sliding
down
the
ropes
like
baleful
comets
,
the
two
Canallers
rushed
into
the
uproar
,
and
sought
to
drag
their
man
out
of
it
towards
the
forecastle
.
Others
of
the
sailors
joined
with
them
in
this
attempt
,
and
a
twisted
turmoil
ensued
;
while
standing
out
of
harm
's
way
,
the
valiant
captain
danced
up
and
down
with
a
whale-pike
,
calling
upon
his
officers
to
manhandle
that
atrocious
scoundrel
,
and
smoke
him
along
to
the
quarter-deck
.
At
intervals
,
he
ran
close
up
to
the
revolving
border
of
the
confusion
,
and
prying
into
the
heart
of
it
with
his
pike
,
sought
to
prick
out
the
object
of
his
resentment
.
But
Steelkilt
and
his
desperadoes
were
too
much
for
them
all
;
they
succeeded
in
gaining
the
forecastle
deck
,
where
,
hastily
slewing
about
three
or
four
large
casks
in
a
line
with
the
windlass
,
these
sea-Parisians
entrenched
themselves
behind
the
barricade
.
