Existing comment:
Herman Melville was supposed to have been inspired to write "Moby Dick" (1851) in part based on reading this tablet for day after day in service:
"In Memory of
Capt Wm Swain,
Associate
Master of the Christopher
Mitchell of Nantucket.
This worthy man
after fastning to a whale,
was carried overboard by
the line, and drowned
May 19, 1844
in the 49th Year of his age.
--
Be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye
think not, the Son of man cometh." |