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[Halma <cap...@vi...>]

Ry member of a whaleship's crew, from the captain down to the cabin-boy,
is paid, not fixed wages, but a "lay," or share of the profits of the
voyage. Formerly, these "lays" were so graduated, that the chief
advantage of the expedition was to the owners; but, of late years,
matters have altered, so that now it is not uncommon for the captain to
receive a twelfth, tenth, or even eighth of the entire profit, and the
other officers in proportion. The attention of our travellers was now
directed to numerous squares and plateaus of great black objects buried
in seaweed; these, they were informed, were casks of oil, stored in t