but if we southern whale-fishers are not so snugly housed aloft as captain sleet and his greenlandmen were; yet that disadvantage is greatly counter-balanced by the widely contrasting serenity of those seductive seas in which we south fishers mostly float. for one, i used to lounge up the rigging very leisurely, resting in the top to have a chat with queequeg, or any one else off duty whom i might find there; then ascending a little way further, and throwing a lazy leg over the top-sail yard, take a preliminary view of the watery pastures, and so at last mount to my ultimate destination.