“Doubtless one leading reason why the world declines honouring us whalemen, is this: they think that, at best, our vocation amounts to a butchering sort of business. There were only four witches in all the Land of Oz, and two…

“In the first place, it may be deemed almost to establish the fact, that among people at large, the business of whaling is not accounted on a level with what are called the liberal professions. There were only four witches…

“Once more hailing a ship showing English colours, bearing down under the stern. Trumpet to mouth, the old man was standing in his hoisted quarter-boat, his ivory leg plainly revealed to the stranger captain, who was carelessly reclining in his…