Post #566483 by bananabobs on Thu, Nov 25, 2010 9:25 AM

On 2009-10-04 01:40, bigbrotiki wrote:

"The forecastle was black and slimy with filth, very small and hot as an oven. It was filled with a compound of foul air, smoke, sea-chests, soap-kegs, greasy pans, tainted meat, sea-sick Americans and foreign ruffians. The ruffians were smoking, laughing, chattering and cursing the green hands who were sick. With groans on one side, and yells, oaths, laughter and smoke on the other, it altogether did not impress [me] as a very pleasant home for the next year or two. [I was] indeed, sick and sorry enough, and heartily wish [myself] home."

Sounds like any typical Tiki Bar on a good night!

Quote from;
John Ross Browne, "Etchings of a Whaling Cruise" 1846.
Browne was trying to do for whaling, What Richard Henry Dana, "Two years before the Mast" had done for merchant ships.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana

[ Edited by: bananabobs 2010-11-25 09:30 ]