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1There is another little item about Gamming which must not be forgotten here. All professions have their own little
2peculiarities of detail; so has the whale fishery. In a pirate, man-of-war, or slave ship, when the captain is rowed
3anywhere in his boat, he always sits in the stern sheets on a comfortable, sometimes cushioned seat there, and often
4steers himself with a pretty little milliner's tiller decorated with gay cords and ribbons. But the whale-boat has no
5seat astern, no sofa of that sort whatever, and no tiller at all. High times indeed, if whaling captains were wheeled
6about the water on castors like gouty old aldermen in patent chairs. And as for a tiller, the whale-boat never admits of
7any such effeminacy; and therefore as in gamming a complete boat's crew must leave the ship, and hence as the boat
8steerer or harpooneer is of the number, that subordinate is the steersman upon the occasion, and the captain, having no
9place to sit in, is pulled off to his visit all standing like a pine tree. And often you will notice that being
10conscious of the eyes of the whole visible world resting on him from the sides of the two ships, this standing captain
11is all alive to the importance of sustaining his dignity by maintaining his legs. Nor is this any very easy matter; for
12in his rear is the immense projecting steering oar hitting him now and then in the small of his back, the after-oar
13reciprocating by rapping his knees in front. He is thus completely wedged before and behind, and can only expand himself
14sideways by settling down on his stretched legs; but a sudden, violent pitch of the boat will often go far to topple
15him, because length of foundation is nothing without corresponding breadth. Merely make a spread angle of two poles, and
16you cannot stand them up. Then, again, it would never do in plain sight of the world's riveted eyes, it would never do,
17I say, for this straddling captain to be seen steadying himself the slightest particle by catching hold of anything with
18his hands; indeed, as token of his entire, buoyant self-command, he generally carries his hands in his trowsers'
19pockets; but perhaps being generally very large, heavy hands, he carries them there for ballast. Nevertheless there have
20occurred instances, well authenticated ones too, where the captain has been known for an uncommonly critical moment or
21two, in a sudden squall say--to seize hold of the nearest oarsman's hair, and hold on there like grim death.
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