The lost man is seldom mentioned, or is dismissed with a sailor’s rude eulogy—“Well, poor George is gone! His cruise is up soon! He knew his work, and did his duty, and was a good shipmate.” Then usually follows some allusion to another world, for sailors are almost all believers; but their notions and opinions are unfixed and at replica Tag Heuer watches loose ends. They says—“God won’t be hard upon the poor fellow,” and seldom get beyond the common phrase which seems to imply that their sufferings and hard treatment here will excuse them hereafter,—To work hard, live hard, die hard, and go to hell after all, would be hard indeed! ...Yet a sailor’s life is at best but a mixture of a little good with much evil, and a little pleasure with much pain.
The beautiful is linked with the revolting, the sublime with the commonplace, and the solemn with the ludicrous.Take that, Shakespeare.He gets used to the sailors life. He learns that an overstrained sense of manliness is the characteristic of seafaring men, or, replica IWC watches rather, of life on board ship. This often gives an appearance of want of feeling, and even of cruelty. From this, if a man comes within an ace of breaking his neck and escapes, it is made a joke of; and no notice must be taken of a bruise or cut; and any expression of pity, or any show of attention, would look sisterly, and unbecoming a man who has to face the rough and tumble of such a life. From this, too, the sick are neglected at sea, and whatever sailors may be ashore, a sick man finds little sympathy or attention, forward or aft.
A man, too, can have nothing peculiar or sacred on board ship; for all the nicer feelings they take pride in disregarding, both in themselves and others. A swiss replica watches thin-skinned man could not live an hour on ship-board. One would be torn raw unless he had the hide of an ox. A moment of natural feeling for home and friends, and then the frigid routine of sea-life returned.Even though life before the mast, life in the forecastle, is at times miserable, he knows it well. To be sick in a forecastle is miserable indeed. It is the worst part of a dogs life; especially in bad weather.
