It was a skipper of this old school who blandly maintained the doctrine that if you wanted the men to love you, you must starve them and knock them down.

The fact is proven by scores of cases that the discipline of the American clipper was both famously efficient and notoriously cruel.

It was not until long after American sailors had ceased to exist that adequate legislation was enacted to provide that they should be treated as human beings afloat and ashore.

Other days and other customs! It is perhaps unkind to judge these vanished master-mariners too harshly, for we cannot comprehend the crises which continually beset them in their command.
No more extreme clipper ships were built after 1854.

The California frenzy had subsided and speed in carrying merchandise was no longer so essential; besides, the passenger traffic was seeking the Isthmian route.