Sometimes, for a period, it is more or less offensive to taste and smell; again, however, becoming comparatively limpid.
But as our water improved, we grew more and more miserly of so priceless a treasure.
And here it may be well to make mention of another little circumstance, however unsentimental.

Thorough-paced tar that he was, my Viking was an inordinate consumer of the Indian weed.

From the Arcturion, he had brought along with him a small half-keg, at bottom impacted with a solitary layer of sable Negrohead, fossil- marked, like the primary stratum of the geologists.

It was the last tier of his abundant supply for the long whaling voyage upon which he had embarked upwards of three years previous.

Now during the calm, and for some days after, poor Jarl's accustomed quid was no longer agreeable company.