Concerning all this, it is much to be deplored that the mastheads of a southern whale ship are unprovided with those enviable little tents or pulpits, called crow’s-nests , in which the lookouts of a Greenland whaler are protected from the inclement weather of the frozen seas. In the fireside narrative of Captain Sleet, entitled A Voyage Among the Icebergs, in Quest of the Greenland Whale, and Incidentally for the Rediscovery of the Lost Icelandic Colonies of Old Greenland ; in this admirable volume, all standers of mastheads are furnished with a charmingly circumstantial account of the then recently invented crow’s-nest of the Glacier , which was the name of Captain Sleet’s good craft. He called it the Sleet’s crow’s-nest