Now, it being Christmas when the ship shot from out her harbor, for a space we had biting
Polar weather, though all the time running. Which detail sets the scene?
away from it to the southward; and by every
degree and minute of latitude which we
sailed, gradually leaving that merciless
winter, and all its intolerable weather behind
us. It was one of those less lowering, but still
grey and gloomy enough mornings of the
transition, when with a fair wind the ship was
rushing through the water with a vindictive
sort of leaping and melancholy rapidity, that
as I mounted to the deck at the call of the
forenoon watch, so soon as I leveled my
glance towards the taffrail, foreboding shivers

throughout history, economists have always thought  ..

gilgamesh is a hero by birth as the epic explains it. in the epic the birth is explained in the way which tells us that gilgamesh’s creation was made perfect by the contribution of various god and that signifies the goal in his life, which was to become a hero and save mankind. an example from the text says. "the glorious sun shamash bestowed upon him glory; adad the terrible god of storms bestowed upon him courage. the great gods perfected his magnificence beyond all others, terrible like the great wild bull. two thirds god they made him; one third man they made him." a man born with superhuman qualities and partly god is destined to be a hero.

the heroic deeds carried by him later in his life also prove the heroic character of gilgamesh. for example hi battle with the ultimate beast humbaba is a proof of his bravery and characteristic heroism. gilgamesh was warned about the beast as the text says about humbaba “whose roar is a flood, whose mouth is fire, whose breath is death". but with the superhuman strength gilgamesh did the job

being surrounded by crimes, poverty, and failing schools as well as his own lack of confidence in his abilities.