From page 14 and 15 of Moby Dick, first edition as reproduced here. We are introduced to the hot but peculiarly written Bulkington.

I seed her in the offing this three years
Enveloped in their shaggy woollen beards
stiff with ice, an eruption of bears
a pitch-like potion of colds and catarrhs

ice-island. liquor mounted to their heads,
arrantast topers newly land from sea,
aloof, desirous sober as the rest.
a noble chest like I have seldom seen

such brawn. His face was deeply brown and burnt,
making his white teeth dazzling; while his eyes
announced that he was a Southerner,
fine Alleganian revelry of his height

he became my comrade on the sea.
began a little previous to me.

I have been listening to the Jonathan Epstein audiobook. It is very good to have Melville's sentences parsed for me, particularly by him.