Beer and the Whales of the Alps

Dutch whalemen pursued their game in those frigid polar seas on the very coast of that esquimaux country. The quantity of beer, too is very large, ten thousand, 800 barrels. But this was very far north, be it remembered, where beer agrees well with the constitution. In our southern fishery, beer would be apt to make the harpooner sleepy at the masthead 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 whale s of two or three centuries ago were high livers that the english whalers have