book i. (folio), chapter vi. (sulphur bottom).—another retiring gentleman, with a brimstone belly, doubtless got by scraping along the tartarian tiles in some of his profounder divings. he is seldom seen; at least i have never seen him except in the remoter southern seas, and then always at too great a distance to study his countenance. he is never chased; he would run away with rope-walks of line. prodigies are told of him. adieu, sulphur bottom! i can say nothing more that is true of ye, nor can the oldest nantucketer.