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- # CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit. - Subsection
## Overview
This subsection is part of "CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit." within the larger collection "Melville Complete Works." It was extracted from the file "moby_dick.txt" and contains text spanning lines 8396 to 8518.
## Context
This subsection is located within "CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit." of "moby_dick.txt," which is part of the "Melville Complete Works" collection. It follows the subsection titled "Thirdly:" and precedes no further subsections within this chapter. The text was extracted by the structure-extraction-lambda process.
## Contents
This subsection contains three distinct chunks of text. The first chunk discusses historical accounts of encounters with whales, referencing "Langsdorff’s Voyages" and the experiences of Captain D’Wolf, as well as an anecdote from Lionel Wafer's voyage. The second chunk continues with historical accounts, including the story of the English ship "Pusie Hall" and an account from Procopius regarding a sea monster in the Propontis. The third chunk further explores the presence of sperm whales in the Mediterranean and the Propontis, referencing Commodore Davis and the potential diet of sperm whales, ultimately suggesting that Procopius's sea monster was likely a sperm whale.
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