text:  But the horrid man submitted even to lower degradation in order to get experience in his profession which our Reginald Augustus could never have thought of; for he tells us that "when the expedition towards the North Pole was fitted out although no boys were allowed to go in the ships--as of no use--yet nothing could prevent my using every interest to go with Captain Lutwidge in the Carcass and as I fancied I was to fill a man's place