Whale Fishing - The Seas of the South

Southern whale fishers are not so snugly housed aloft as captain sleet and his greenland men were. Yet that disadvantage is greatly counterbalanced by the widely contrasting serenity of those seductive seas in which we south fishers mostly float. For nowadays, the whale fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy and absent minded young men. Harold not unfrequently perches himself upon the masthead of some luckless disappointed whale ship, and in moody phrase, ejaculates. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean. Roll ten thousand blubber hunters sweep over thee in vain.