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1The industrial and commercial papers treated the question chiefly from this point of view. The Shipping and Mercantile
2Gazette, the Lloyd's List, the Packet-Boat, and the Maritime and Colonial Review, all papers devoted to insurance
3companies which threatened to raise their rates of premium, were unanimous on this point. Public opinion had been
4pronounced. The United States were the first in the field; and in New York they made preparations for an expedition
5destined to pursue this narwhal. A frigate of great speed, the Abraham Lincoln, was put in commission as soon as
6possible. The arsenals were opened to Commander Farragut, who hastened the arming of his frigate; but, as it always
7happens, the moment it was decided to pursue the monster, the monster did not appear. For two months no one heard it
8spoken of. No ship met with it. It seemed as if this unicorn knew of the plots weaving around it. It had been so much
9talked of, even through the Atlantic cable, that jesters pretended that this slender fly had stopped a telegram on its
10passage and was making the most of it. So when the frigate had been armed for a long campaign, and provided with
11formidable fishing apparatus, no one could tell what course to pursue. Impatience grew apace, when, on the 2nd of July,
12they learned that a steamer of the line of San Francisco, from California to Shanghai, had seen the animal three weeks
13before in the North Pacific Ocean. The excitement caused by this news was extreme. The ship was revictualled and well
14stocked with coal. Three hours before the Abraham Lincoln left Brooklyn pier, I received a letter worded as follows:--
15"To M. ARONNAX, Professor in the Museum of Paris, Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York. "SIR,--If you will consent to join the
16Abraham Lincoln in this expedition, the Government of the United States will with pleasure see France represented in the
17enterprise. Commander Farragut has a cabin at your disposal. "Very cordially yours, "J.B. HOBSON, "Secretary of Marine."
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