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chapter-037		chapter-037			.txt	text/plain	2635	82	64	Now, as the business of standing mast-heads, ashore or afloat, is a I take it, that the earliest standers of mast-heads were the old look-outs of a modern ship sing out for a sail, or a whale just bearing Nelson, also, on a capstan of gun-metal, stands his mast-head in that in the early times of the whale fishery, ere ships were regularly then to the one proper mast-head, that of a whale-ship at sea. three mast-heads are kept manned from sun-rise to sun-set; the seamen admirable volume, all standers of mast-heads are furnished with a crow's-nest of the Glacier, which was the name of Captain Sleet's mast-head in this crow's nest of his, he tells us that he always had a whale-ships' standing orders, "Keep your weather eye open, and sing out himself upon the mast-head of some luckless disappointed whale-ship, Very often do the captains of such ships take those absent-minded young	./cache/chapter-037.txt	./txt/chapter-037.txt