Memorials of the Sea My Father Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the La
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But as to the observant and intelligent classes separate from this baneful prejudice, and as to some of more dignified minds amongst parties who were personally interested in whale-fishing concerns, the character and merits of the subject of these records were sufficiently appreciated and acknowledged. The fame of his successes reached throughout the commercial ports of the realm, and applications of a very tempting nature came unsolicited upon him, for transferring his guidance and energies to... other asso- ciates in Arctic enterprise, with encouraging promise of far more profitable results. My Mother, who was much attached to Whitby, as a place of residence, viewed these repeated offers with much anxiety, feeling that my Father's taking a command elsewhere must involve her either in the EPISODICAL INCIDENT. 65 trial of leaving Whitby, or in the great inconvenience of a much more considerable period of severance than the mere Greenland voyage required, of the family circle. For awhile her objections prevailed ; but ultimately, as in another chapter we shall have to record, these objections sunk under the advantages elsewhere proffered.
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