Another had seen every port in the North Pacific, had been wrecked on Queen Charlotte's Island, and told wonderful stories of his adventures in rounding Cape Horn.

His adventures among the South Sea Islands were of the most romantic kind, and colored so as to incite the ambition of a venturesome young lad like Tite to the highest pitch.

There was another old sailor who had sailed the South and North Pacific, had killed his score of whales, and been as many times within an inch of losing his own life.
These stories so fired the young gentleman's imagination that he resolved to try his fortune at a whaling voyage as soon as the people of Hudson sent their first ship out.

There was the wide world before him, and perhaps he might find the means of making a fortune in some distant land.

But how was he to break this resolution to his kind parents, whom he loved so dearly?
What effect would it have on his mother, who doted on him, and for whom he had the truest affection?
His mind hung between hope for the future and duty to his parents.