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The
quantity
of
the
beer
,
too
,
is
very
large
,
10,800
barrels
.
Now
,
as
those
polar
fisheries
could
only
be
prosecuted
in
the
short
summer
of
that
climate
,
so
that
the
whole
cruise
of
one
of
these
Dutch
whalemen
,
including
the
short
voyage
to
and
from
the
Spitzbergen
sea
,
did
not
much
exceed
three
months
,
say
,
and
reckoning
30
men
to
each
of
their
fleet
of
180
sail
,
we
have
5,400
Low
Dutch
seamen
in
all
;
therefore
,
I
say
,
we
have
precisely
two
barrels
of
beer
per
man
,
for
a
twelve
weeks
'
allowance
,
exclusive
of
his
fair
proportion
of
that
ankers
of
gin
Now
,
whether
these
gin
and
beer
harpooneers
,
so
fuddled
as
one
might
fancy
them
to
have
been
,
were
the
right
sort
of
men
to
stand
up
in
a
boat
's
head
,
and
take
good
aim
at
flying
whales
;
this
would
seem
somewhat
improbable
.
Yet
they
did
aim
at
them
,
and
hit
them
too
.
But
this
was
very
far
North
,
be
it
remembered
,
where
beer
agrees
well
with
the
constitution
;
upon
the
Equator
,
in
our
southern
fishery
,
beer
would
be
apt
to
make
the
harpooneer
sleepy
at
the
mast-head
and
boozy
in
his
boat
;
and
grievous
loss
might
ensue
to
Nantucket
and
New
Bedford
.
But
no
more
;
enough
has
been
said
to
show
that
the
old
Dutch
whalers
of
two
or
three
centuries
ago
were
high
livers
;
and
that
the
English
whalers
have
not
neglected
so
excellent
an
example
.
For
,
say
they
,
when
cruising
in
an
empty
ship
,
if
you
can
get
nothing
better
out
of
the
world
,
get
a
good
dinner
out
of
it
,
at
least
.
And
this
empties
the
decanter
.
Hitherto
,
in
descriptively
treating
of
the
Sperm
Whale
,
I
have
chiefly
dwelt
upon
the
marvels
of
his
outer
aspect
;
or
separately
and
in
detail
upon
some
few
interior
structural
features
.
But
to
a
large
and
thorough
sweeping
comprehension
of
him
,
it
behooves
me
now
to
unbutton
him
still
further
,
and
untagging
the
points
of
his
hose
,
unbuckling
his
garters
,
and
casting
loose
the
hooks
and
the
eyes
of
the
joints
of
his
innermost
bones
,
set
him
before
you
in
his
ultimatum
;
that
is
to
say
,
in
his
unconditional
skeleton
.
But
how
now
,
Ishmael
?
How
is
it
,
that
you
,
a
mere
oarsman
in
the
fishery
,
pretend
to
know
aught
about
the
subterranean
parts
of
the
whale
?
Did
erudite
Stubb
,
mounted
upon
your
capstan
,
deliver
lectures
on
the
anatomy
of
the
Cetacea
;
and
by
help
of
the
windlass
,
hold
up
a
specimen
rib
for
exhibition
?
Explain
thyself
,
Ishmael
.
Can
you
land
a
full-grown
whale
on
your
deck
for
examination
,
as
a
cook
dishes
a
roast-pig
?
Surely
not
.
A
veritable
witness
have
you
hitherto
been
,
Ishmael
;
but
have
a
care
how
you
seize
the
privilege
of
Jonah
alone
;
the
privilege
of
discoursing
upon
the
joists
and
beams
;
the
rafters
,
ridge-pole
,
sleepers
,
and
under-pinnings
,
making
up
the
frame-work
of
leviathan
;
and
belike
of
the
tallow-vats
,
dairy-rooms
,
butteries
,
and
cheeseries
in
his
bowels
.
I
confess
,
that
since
Jonah
,
few
whalemen
have
penetrated
very
far
beneath
the
skin
of
the
adult
whale
;
nevertheless
,
I
have
been
blessed
with
an
opportunity
to
dissect
him
in
miniature
.
In
a
ship
I
belonged
to
,
a
small
cub
Sperm
Whale
was
once
bodily
hoisted
to
the
deck
for
his
poke
or
bag
,
to
make
sheaths
for
the
barbs
of
the
harpoons
,
and
for
the
heads
of
the
lances
.
Think
you
I
let
the
chance
go
,
without
using
my
boat-hatchet
and
jack-knife
,
and
breaking
the
seal
and
reading
all
the
contents
of
that
young
cub
?
And
as
for
my
exact
knowledge
of
the
bones
of
the
leviathan
in
their
gigantic
,
full
grown
development
,
for
that
rare
knowledge
I
am
indebted
to
my
late
royal
friend
Tranque
,
king
of
Tranque
,
one
of
the
Arsacides
.
For
being
at
Tranque
,
years
ago
,
when
attached
to
the
trading-ship
Dey
of
Algiers
,
I
was
invited
to
spend
part
of
the
Arsacidean
holidays
with
the
lord
of
Tranque
,
at
his
retired
palm
villa
at
Pupella
;
a
sea-side
glen
not
very
far
distant
from
what
our
sailors
called
Bamboo-Town
,
his
capital
.
Among
many
other
fine
qualities
,
my
royal
friend
Tranquo
,
being
gifted
with
a
devout
love
for
all
matters
of
barbaric
vertu
,
had
brought
together
in
Pupella
whatever
rare
things
the
more
ingenious
of
his
people
could
invent
;
chiefly
carved
woods
of
wonderful
devices
,
chiselled
shells
,
inlaid
spears
,
costly
paddles
,
aromatic
canoes
;
and
all
these
distributed
among
whatever
natural
wonders
,
the
wonder-freighted
,
tribute-rendering
waves
had
cast
upon
his
shores
.
Chief
among
these
latter
was
a
great
Sperm
Whale
,
which
,
after
an
unusually
long
raging
gale
,
had
been
found
dead
and
stranded
,
with
his
head
against
a
cocoa-nut
tree
,
whose
plumage-like
,
tufted
droopings
seemed
his
verdant
jet
.
