Yet they had a great respect for the cook's judgment, and in their hearts considered Harvey something of a mascot by consequence.
And while Harvey was taking in knowledge of new things at each pore and hard health with every gulp of the good air, the We're Here went her ways and did her business on the Bank, and the silvery-gray kenches of well-pressed fish mounted higher and higher in the hold.

No one day's work was out of common, but the average days were many and close together.
Naturally, a man of Disko's reputation was closely watched--"scrowged upon," Dan called it--by his neighbours, but he had a very pretty knack of giving them the slip through the curdling, glidy fog-banks.

Disko avoided company for two reasons.

He wished to make his own experiments, in the first place; and in the second, he objected to the mixed gatherings of a fleet of all nations.

The bulk of them were mainly Gloucester boats, with a scattering from Provincetown, Harwich, Chatham, and some of the Maine ports, but the crews drew from goodness knows where.