XXV
Postscript
In behalf of the of whaling, I would advance but substantiated facts. But after embattling his facts, an advocate who should wholly suppress a not unreasonable , which might tell upon his cause—such an advocate, would he not be ?
It is well known that at the of kings and queens, even modern ones, a certain curious process of seasoning them for their functions is gone through. There is a of state, so called, and there may be a of state. How they use the salt, precisely—who knows? Certain I am, however, that a king’s head is oiled at his , even as a head of salad. Can it be, though, that they it with a view of making its interior run well, as they anoint machinery? Much might be ruminated here, concerning the essential dignity of this regal process, because in common life we esteem but meanly and contemptibly a fellow who anoints his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing. In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere. As a general rule, he can’t amount to much in his totality.
But the only thing to be considered here, is this—what kind of oil is used at coronations? Certainly it cannot be olive oil, nor macassar oil, nor castor oil, nor bear’s oil, nor train oil, nor cod-liver oil. What then can it possibly be, but sperm oil in its unmanufactured, unpolluted state, the sweetest of all oils?
Think of that, ye loyal Britons! we whalemen supply your kings and queens with coronation stuff!