Well, these are useless complaints; I shall certainly find no
friend on the wide ocean, nor even here in Archangel, among
merchants and seamen. Yet some feelings, unallied to the dross
of human nature, beat even in these rugged bosoms. My
lieutenant, for instance, is a man of wonderful courage and
enterprise; he is madly desirous of glory. He is an Englishman,
and in the midst of national and professional prejudices,
unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest
endowments of humanity. I first became acquainted with him on
board a whale vessel: finding that he was unemployed in this
city, I easily engaged him to assist in my enterprise.