| £ | s. | d. | |
| Expenses on First Voyage, including Outfit of the Second | 4008 | 18 | 4 |
| Ditto for Second Voyage. | 4476 | 2 | 6 |
| Ditto for Third Voyage | 4679 | 11 | 5 |
| Ditto on Fourth and Fifth | 9216 | 14 | 6 |
| Ditto on Sixth | 5823 | 14 | 4 |
| Ditto on Seventh | 4729 | 11 | 8 |
| Ditto on Eighth | 4722 | 11 | 5 |
| £37,657 | 4 | 2 | |
| RECEIPTS. | |||
| Proceeds of Cargo and Government Bounty(20s. per ton on the ship’s measurement,or 291l.) on the First Voyage | 6864 | 10 | 5 |
| Ditto, Second Voyage | 6568 | 1 | 0 |
| Ditto, Third | 6287 | 10 | 9 |
| Ditto, Fourth and Fifth | 10,428 | 7 | 11 |
| Ditto, Sixth | 7157 | 8 | 6 |
| Ditto, Seventh | 8275 | 14 | 6 |
| Ditto, Eighth | 8195 | 16 | 10 |
| Amount of Receipts | £53,777 | 9 | 11 |
| Ditto Expenses | 37,657 | 4 | 2 |
| Clear Profits | £16,120 | 5 | 9 |
This balance I have stated as “clear profits,” because, in consequence of the perfect state of repair of the Resolution, the large augmentation in the quantity of her stores, and the increased cost of shipping, the value of the ship (augmented by the charge of outfit for the ninth voyage in the table of expenses) was scarcely at all deteriorated. Hence we derive for the clear profit on the original advance of 8000l.,—a capital still existing,—during eight years continuously, the sum of 2015l. 0s. 8d. a year, or 25 per cent per annum.
With this result, the enterprises of my Father in the Resolution, of Whitby (influenced, in a considerable degree, I believe, by a kindly and parental consideration for myself), concluded. For on the very day on which I completed my twenty-first year, he, at a Board of the co-partnery, specially summoned, formally resigned his command; and, on the same day,—the earliest at which, by reason of age, I could legally hold a command,—I was unanimously elected his successor.
Whilst thus retiring from the command of the Resolution, my Father was by no means disposed to abandon his stirring and highly remunerative occupation. At the very period of his retirement, indeed, the opportunity of a new and satisfactory connection was, incidentally by my own medium, opened to him, of which he forthwith availed himself.
But before entering on the relation of his subsequent enterprises, we shall proceed, according to our usual plan, to adduce a few incidents or circumstances, illustrative, mainly, of character or talents, which are associated with this period of our memorial history.
Section II.—Treatment and Recovery of a half-frozen Seaman.
The peculiarity of the conflicts, and the severity of the climate, encountered by the Arctic whale-fishers, yield a characteristic novelty both to the incidents and accidents of their adventure. So that, although the incidents of whaling enterprise may, for the most part, possess such general characteristics as to admit of some classification among themselves, they are at the same time novel, when considered in relation to the results of ordinary adventure; whilst, every now and then, an accident happens, or a circumstance is met with, which, taken on the broadest scheme of comparison, is found to be sui generis.
Such incidents afford special occasions for the exercise of inherent science and originality of intellect in those who have to deal with the results. And, I may add, every accident or occurrence of this kind, which claimed my Father’s directing consideration, was, in all cases that I ever heard of, dealt with in a manner consistent with a condition of mind of inexhaustible resources in itself.
Several cases of this description happened, whilst I was myself present, during my youthful training as a seaman and a fisherman. The one referred to, in the title of this section, was specially interesting.