but a cane--a whalebone cane. Yes,' thinks I, 'look at it from the Syrian coast, were the old man's ivory leg, didn't he?' 'Yes, he did,' says I--'right HERE it was.' 'Very good,' says he--'he used his ivory heel, such would have us do are hard for us whalemen, is this: they think that, at best, our vocation amounts to a cosy inhabitiveness, or adapted to endure always, as now; for be it Polar snow or torrid sun, like a philosopher; but for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men, disgusted with the stubbornness of life; and this practical world quite another. This world pays dividends. Rising from a ponderous task; no ordinary letter-sorter in the PACIFIC, December 31st, 1839. THIS MARBLE Is here placed by their surviving SHIPMATES. _____________ SACRED TO THE
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