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1The quantity of beer, too, is very large, 10,800 barrels. Now, as those polar fisheries could only be prosecuted in the
2short summer of that climate, so that the whole cruise of one of these Dutch whalemen, including the short voyage to and
3from the Spitzbergen sea, did not much exceed three months, say, and reckoning 30 men to each of their fleet of 180
4sail, we have 5,400 Low Dutch seamen in all; therefore, I say, we have precisely two barrels of beer per man, for a
5twelve weeks' allowance, exclusive of his fair proportion of that 550 ankers of gin. Now, whether these gin and beer
6harpooneers, so fuddled as one might fancy them to have been, were the right sort of men to stand up in a boat's head,
7and take good aim at flying whales; this would seem somewhat improbable. Yet they did aim at them, and hit them too. But
8this was very far North, be it remembered, where beer agrees well with the constitution; upon the Equator, in our
9southern fishery, beer would be apt to make the harpooneer sleepy at the mast-head and boozy in his boat; and grievous
10loss might ensue to Nantucket and New Bedford. But no more; enough has been said to show that the old Dutch whalers of
11two or three centuries ago were high livers; and that the English whalers have not neglected so excellent an example.
12For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of
13it, at least. And this empties the decanter.
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