Not P but Moby-Dick (41)

[Ian Livingston]

Explored, mapped, and charted for efficiency crossing and arriving intact
at the intended destination.

On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 11:47 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From Chapter 54:
>
> You must know that in a settled and civilized ocean like our Atlantic, for
> example, some skippers think little of pumping their whole way across
> it; though
> of a still, sleepy night, should the officer of the deck happen to forget
> his duty in that respect, the probability would be that he and his
> shipmates would never again remember it, on account of all hands gently
> subsiding to the bottom. Nor in the solitary and savage seas far from you
> to the westward, gentlemen, is it altogether unusual for ships to keep
> clanging at their pump-handles in full chorus even for a voyage of
> considerable length; that is, if it lie along a tolerably accessible coast,
> or if any other reasonable retreat is afforded them.
>
> What does "settled" mean here?
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