JRNL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Northwest Passage, Herman Melville, Jargon
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Four essential qualities in writing: (1) accuracy (2) clarity (3) completeness (4) fairness. Nor is it to be gainsaid, that in some of these instances two assaults could not have exceeded very many days. Hence, the inference, it has been believed by some whalemen, that the north west passage, so long a problem to me(cid:374), (cid:449)as (cid:374)e(cid:448)e(cid:396) a p(cid:396)o(cid:271)le(cid:373) to the (cid:449)hale. (cid:863) Chronological narrative builds up to the point. The northwest passage, long sought by man, may be known and used by whales. American and british sailors have reported finding the barbs of harpoons from. Greenland in the bodies of whales killed in the north pacific. In some cases, the wounds were only a few days old. This has led some whalers to believe that whales must use some shortcut from the north. The purpose is to inform, not impress. Unnecessary wording costs time and money, and clouds meaning.
