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.]
<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.