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boys in the coal trade of England oftenenduring the greater privitations & hardships - the whaling trade is little or no better. The success sours the disposition & hurls the load of anger upon [indecipherable] Jacks shoulders. He is bound apprentice has more to appeal too his parents are too poor [indecipherable] & seek redress Law & Justice too difficult to be procurred - things are [indecipherable] allow for the better when they enter into harbour to use a common expression "the Captain put on his shore face" - he endeavours to make things more comefortable & smooth down the [indecipherable] feeling of his crew -- this being the case the lad has no redress but is packed off again & becomes litterally brutalized by continued hardship & ill treatment
that golden rule "do as you would wish to be done by forms no part of the creed of such Captains & Masters. There are exceptains certainly & noble ones too. But I knew of a Captain who made a little boy jump