Practice Typing

The large importance attached to the harpooneers vocation is evinced by the fact, that originally in the old Dutch Fishery, two centuries and more ago, the command of a whale ship was not wholly lodged in the person now called the captain, but was divided between him and an officer called the Specksnyder. Literally this word means Fat Cutter; usage, however, in time made it equivalent to Chief Harpooneer.