“I enter into the details of good living on board to correct a common impresssion that a whaleman's fare is always poor:

        “Salt beef, salt beef, is our relief -
        Salt beef, and a biscuit hard,”

as an old song wrongly has it.

[Davis, William M., Nimrod of the Sea or, The American Whaleman, (New York: Harper & Bros., 1874, p.131)]

[Nantucket Historical Association summary note: Account of voyage; original is Log 354. Used in preparation of William M. Davis "Nimrod of the Sea or The American Whaleman" (Harper 1874)]