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“No, Sir, ’tis a Right Whale,” answered Tom; “I saw his sprout; he
threw up a pair of as pretty rainbows as a Christian would wish to
look at. He’s a raal oil-butt, that fellow!” —_Cooper’s Pilot_.
“The papers were brought in, and we saw in the Berlin Gazette that
whales had been introduced on the stage there.” —_Eckermann’s
Conversations with Goethe_.
“My God! Mr. Chace, what is the matter?” I answered, “we have been
stove by a whale.” —“_Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Whale Ship
Essex of Nantucket, which was attacked and finally destroyed by a
large Sperm Whale in the Pacific Ocean_.” _By Owen Chace of
Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York_, 1821.
“A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was piping free;
Now bright, now dimmed, was the moonlight pale, And the phospher
gleamed in the wake of the whale, As it floundered in the sea.”
—_Elizabeth Oakes Smith_.
“The quantity of line withdrawn from the boats engaged in the capture
of this one whale, amounted altogether to 10,440 yards or nearly six
English miles....
“Sometimes the whale shakes its tremendous tail in the air, which,
cracking like a whip, resounds to the distance of three or four
miles.” —_Scoresby_.
“Mad with the agonies he endures from these fresh attacks, the
infuriated Sperm Whale rolls over and over; he rears his enormous
head, and with wide expanded jaws snaps at everything around him; he
rushes at the boats with his head; they are propelled before him with
vast swiftness, and sometimes utterly destroyed.... It is a matter of
great astonishment that the consideration of the habits of so
interesting, and, in a commercial point of view, so important an
animal (as the Sperm Whale) should have been so entirely neglected,
or should have excited so little curiosity among the numerous, and
many of them competent observers, that of late years, must have
possessed the most abundant and the most convenient opportunities of
witnessing their habitudes.” —_Thomas Beale’s History of the Sperm
Whale_, 1839.
“The Cachalot” (Sperm Whale) “is not only better armed than the True
Whale” (Greenland or Right Whale) “in possessing a formidable weapon
at either extremity of its body, but also more frequently displays a
disposition to employ these weapons offensively and in manner at once
so artful, bold, and mischievous, as to lead to its being regarded as
the most dangerous to attack of all the known species of the whale
tribe.” —_Frederick Debell Bennett’s Whaling Voyage Round the Globe_,
1840.
October 13. “There she blows,” was sung out from the mast-head.
“Where away?” demanded the captain. “Three points off the lee bow,
sir.” “Raise up your wheel. Steady!” “Steady, sir.” “Mast-head
ahoy! Do you see that whale now?” “Ay ay, sir! A shoal of Sperm
Whales! There she blows! There she breaches!” “Sing out! sing out
every time!” “Ay Ay, sir! There she blows! there—there—_thar_ she
blows—bowes—bo-o-os!” “How far off?” “Two miles and a half.” “Thunder
and lightning! so near! Call all hands.” —_J. Ross Browne’s Etchings
of a Whaling Cruize_. 1846.
“The Whale-ship Globe, on board of which vessel occurred the horrid
transactions we are about to relate, belonged to the island of
Nantucket.” —“_Narrative of the Globe Mutiny_,” _by Lay and Hussey
survivors. A.D._ 1828.
Being once pursued by a whale which he had wounded, he parried the
assault for some time with a lance; but the furious monster at length
rushed on the boat; himself and comrades only being preserved by
leaping into the water when they saw the onset was inevitable.”
—_Missionary Journal of Tyerman and Bennett_.
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