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: or rather, to word my
phrase more characteristically, of advancement in his
profession. 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.