I don't want to lay on my dyin' bed an' think that I'm the man that killed the last whale in the world.

I'm commandin' this vessel, and I sail it wherever Mr.Gibbs tells me to sail it; but if he wants the bones of a whale to take home as a curiosity, an' tells me to sail this vessel after that whale, I won't do it." "I'm with you there," said Sammy.

"I have been thinkin' while you was talkin', an' it's my opinion that it's not only the last whale in the world, but it's purty nigh tame.

I believe it's so glad to see some other movin' creature in this lonely sea that it wants to keep company with us all the time.

No, sir, I wouldn't have anything to do with killin' that fish!" The opinions of the captain and Sammy were now communicated to the rest of the company on board, and nearly all of them thought that they had had such an idea themselves.