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In less than half a day, sir,
We'd gone through Hudson Bay, sir,
Had jumped the Jute peninsula and passed the coast o' Maine;
The whale with strength unceasin'
His speed kep' on increasin',
Till with a sizz we went gee-whizz past Portugal and Spain.
Three times we shot past Sulu,
Three times by Honolulu,
Three times he dragged us down SO deep we touched the ocean floor.
In vain our mate yelled: "Stiddy!"
Our crew was gittin' giddy-
To navigate at such a rate is somethin' like a bore.
Then came the thing we dreaded-
For Africa we headed.
"He'll bump into Gibraltar rock!" we cried, and held our breath.
But ere we thus were mangled
The whale became entangled-
He stuck in the Suez canal and choked himself to death.
Then soon each lazy lubber
Got busy boilin' blubber-
We stood in ranks and filled up tanks with all that we could boil.
And when we made a dicker
For that there precious licker,
It made us independent rich and
scared the Standard Oil.
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This file includes poems, articles, and letters relating to Admiral Robert Peary, the ship Roosevelt, and North and South Pole expeditions.
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