Supplied us vital air, which stuff
We took like macaroni snuff.[30]
Encamp’d beneath a huge ice island,
For nineteen years we didn’t come nigh land,
And could have staid, as well as not,
E’en had the sea been boiling hot.
In car triumphant, drawn by whales,
Tackled to their tremendous tails,
We rode sublime, and claim’d a right