1 I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
2 Quitting the good city of old Manhatto, I duly arrived in New Bedford.
3 I abandon the glory and distinction of such offices to those who like them.
4 It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation.
5 With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship.
6 For my part, I abominate all honourable respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind whatsoever.
7 Finally, I always go to sea as a sailor, because of the wholesome exercise and pure air of the fore-castle deck.
8 I stuffed a shirt or two into my old carpet-bag, tucked it under my arm, and started for Cape Horn and the Pacific.
9 It is quite as much as I can do to take care of myself, without taking care of ships, barques, brigs, schooners, and what not.
10 No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast-head.
11 With other men, perhaps, such things would not have been inducements; but as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote.
12 Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of.
13 The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.
14 Much was I disappointed upon learning that the little packet for Nantucket had already sailed, and that no way of reaching that place would offer, till the following Monday.
15 As most young candidates for the pains and penalties of whaling stop at this same New Bedford, thence to embark on their voyage, it may as well be related that I, for one, had no idea of so doing.
16 Now having a night, a day, and still another night following before me in New Bedford, ere I could embark for my destined port, it became a matter of concernment where I was to eat and sleep meanwhile.
17 Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my lungs, I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger.
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