Flask, It's Easy to Be Sensible.

The captain of the Ahab asks his crew to take extra risks for their insurance policies. The ship was hit by a typhoon in 1788, killing more than 3,000 people. 'It is hardly any sight that can be seen without some sort of unwonted emotion,' he writes. He also describes how one man's jawbone tiller had several times been reelingly hurled from its gale-force position.