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The
"
Pilgrim
"
was
a
strong
vessel
,
capital
sailer
,
well
quoted
in
the
flotilla
of
American
whalers
.
The
opportunity
presented
itself
.
It
was
necessary
to
profit
by
it
.
Mrs.
Weldon
did
profit
by
it
.
Cousin
Benedict
--
it
need
not
be
said
--
would
accompany
her
.
This
cousin
was
a
worthy
man
,
about
fifty
years
of
age
.
But
,
notwithstanding
his
fifty
years
,
it
would
not
have
been
prudent
to
let
him
go
out
alone
.
Long
,
rather
than
tall
,
narrow
,
rather
than
thin
,
his
figure
bony
,
his
skull
enormous
and
very
hairy
,
one
recognized
in
his
whole
interminable
person
one
of
those
worthy
savants
,
with
gold
spectacles
,
good
and
inoffensive
beings
,
destined
to
remain
great
children
all
their
lives
,
and
to
finish
very
old
,
like
centenaries
who
would
die
at
nurse
.
"
Cousin
Benedict
"
--
he
was
called
so
invariably
,
even
outside
of
the
family
,
and
,
in
truth
,
he
was
indeed
one
of
those
good
men
who
seem
to
be
the
born
cousins
of
all
the
world
--
Cousin
Benedict
,
always
impeded
by
his
long
arms
and
his
long
limbs
,
would
be
absolutely
incapable
of
attending
to
matters
alone
,
even
in
the
most
ordinary
circumstances
of
life
.
He
was
not
troublesome
,
oh
!
no
,
but
rather
embarrassing
for
others
,
and
embarrassed
for
himself
.
Easily
satisfied
,
besides
being
very
accommodating
,
forgetting
to
eat
or
drink
,
if
some
one
did
not
bring
him
something
to
eat
or
drink
,
insensible
to
the
cold
as
to
the
heat
,
he
seemed
to
belong
less
to
the
animal
kingdom
than
to
the
vegetable
kingdom
.
One
must
conceive
a
very
useless
tree
,
without
fruit
and
almost
without
leaves
,
incapable
of
giving
nourishment
or
shelter
,
but
with
a
good
heart
.
Such
was
Cousin
Benedict
.
He
would
very
willingly
render
service
to
people
if
,
as
Mr.
Prudhomme
would
say
,
he
were
capable
of
rendering
it
.
Finally
,
his
friends
loved
him
for
his
very
feebleness
.
Mrs.
Weldon
regarded
him
as
her
child
--
a
large
elder
brother
of
her
little
Jack
.
It
is
proper
to
add
here
that
Cousin
Benedict
was
,
meanwhile
,
neither
idle
nor
unoccupied
.
On
the
contrary
,
he
was
a
worker
.
His
only
passion
--
natural
history
--
absorbed
him
entirely
.
To
say
"
Natural
History
"
is
to
say
a
great
deal
.
We
know
that
the
different
parts
of
which
this
science
is
composed
are
zoology
,
botany
,
mineralogy
,
and
geology
.
