have thought of claiming it, had it not been for the
advice of one of the missionaries, who took a fancy to me.

With the money that I received I paid my passage in a vessel bound to
Genoa, where I arrived in safety, but without the means of subsistence.
But what doth the poet say, "Necessity is a strong rider with sharp
stirrups, who maketh the sorry jade do that which the strong horse
sometimes will not do." Having no other resource, I determined once
more to try my fortune upon the ocean.

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"Allah wakbar--God is every where! It was your talleh--your destiny,
Huckaback."

"It was his kismet--his fate, your sublime highness," rejoined Mustapha,
"that he should go through those perils to amuse your leisure hours."

"Wallah thaib--well said, by Allah! Let the slave rejoice in our
bounty. Give him ten pieces of gold; we will open our ears to his next
voyage to-morrow. Murakhas, you are dismissed."

"May your sublime shadow never be less," replied Huckaback, as he
salaamed out of the pacha's presence.

VOLUME TWO, CHAPTER SIX.

THE LAST VOYAGE OF HUCKABACK.

Your highness will be surprised at the unheard-of adventures that
occurred to me in my last voyage, and I think I can boldly assert that
no man, either before or since, has explored so much, or has been in the
peculiarly dangerous situations in which I have been placed by destiny.

Notwithstanding the danger which I incurred from my former expedition to
the Northern Ocean, I was persuaded to take the command of a whaler
about to proceed to those latitudes: we sailed from Marseilles early in
the year that we might arrive at the northward in good time, and be able
to quit the Frozen Ocean before the winter had set in. We were very
fortunate on our arrival at Baffin's Bay, and very soon had eighteen
fish on board. The autumn was hardly commenced before I proposed to
return, and we were steering in a southerly direction, when we
encountered two or three large icebergs, upon the edges of which the
walruses or sea-horses were lying in herds. As we had some casks still
empty, I determined to fill them with the oil to be obtained from these
animals, and hoisted out my boats to attack them. We killed a large
number, which we sent on board, and continued our fishery with great
success, having only lost one boat, the bottom plank of which had been
bitten out by the tusks of one of th