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"Compelled by a strong necessity to leave England to wrench asunder all the ties which held him there, and embark on board a South-sea-man as surgeon he seems to have had a hard life of it with a drunken, brutal captain, and ignorant not a human being with whom he could sympathise. Unable to return home, after three years' service he exchanged into another ship.
Ten days afterwards, the stock still falling, he writes, "The Company have yet come to no determination, for they are in such a wood that they know not which way to turn. By several gentlemen lately come to town, I perceive the very name of a South-Sea-man grows abominable in every country. A great many goldsmiths are already run off, and more will daily.
Whether she was the Susan Tucker, or some other whaler, or a big South-Sea-man driven low and getting what easting she could out of the gale, I know not. She was as complete a mystery of the ocean night as any spectral fabric, and a heavier terror to me than a phantasm worked by ghosts could have proved.
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