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1"We set sail from the Elbe, wind N.E. in the ship called The Jonas-in-the-Whale.... Some say the whale can't open his
2mouth, but that is a fable.... They frequently climb up the masts to see whether they can see a whale, for the first
3discoverer has a ducat for his pains.... I was told of a whale taken near Shetland, that had above a barrel of herrings
4in his belly.... One of our harpooneers told me that he caught once a whale in Spitzbergen that was white all over." --A
5Voyage to Greenland, A.D. 1671. Harris Coll. "Several whales have come in upon this coast (Fife) Anno 1652, one eighty
6feet in length of the whale-bone kind came in, which (as I was informed), besides a vast quantity of oil, did afford 500
7weight of baleen. The jaws of it stand for a gate in the garden of Pitferren." --Sibbald's Fife and Kinross. "Myself
8have agreed to try whether I can master and kill this Sperma-ceti whale, for I could never hear of any of that sort that
9was killed by any man, such is his fierceness and swiftness." --Richard Strafford's Letter from the Bermudas. Phil.
10Trans. A.D. "Whales in the sea God's voice obey." --N. E. Primer. "We saw also abundance of large whales, there being
11more in those southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the northward of us." --Captain Cowley's
12Voyage round the Globe, A.D. "... and the breath of the whale is frequently attended with such an insupportable smell,
13as to bring on a disorder of the brain." --Ulloa's South America. "To fifty chosen sylphs of special note, We trust the
14important charge, the petticoat. Oft have we known that seven-fold fence to fail, Tho' stuffed with hoops and armed with
15ribs of whale." --Rape of the Lock. "If we compare land animals in respect to magnitude, with those that take up their
16abode in the deep, we shall find they will appear contemptible in the comparison. The whale is doubtless the largest
17animal in creation." --Goldsmith, Nat. Hist. "If you should write a fable for little fishes, you would make them speak
18like great whales." --Goldsmith to Johnson. "In the afternoon we saw what was supposed to be a rock, but it was found to
19be a dead whale, which some Asiatics had killed, and were then towing ashore. They seemed to endeavor to conceal
20themselves behind the whale, in order to avoid being seen by us." --Cook's Voyages. "The larger whales, they seldom
21venture to attack. They stand in so great dread of some of them, that when out at sea they are afraid to mention even
22their names, and carry dung, lime-stone, juniper-wood, and some other articles of the same nature in their boats, in
23order to terrify and prevent their too near approach." --Uno Von Troil's Letters on Banks's and Solander's Voyage to
24Iceland in 1772. "The Spermacetti Whale found by the Nantuckois, is an active, fierce animal, and requires vast address
25and boldness in the fishermen." --Thomas Jefferson's Whale Memorial to the French minister in 1778. "And pray, sir, what
26in the world is equal to it?" --Edmund Burke's reference in Parliament to the Nantucket Whale-Fishery. "Spain--a great
27whale stranded on the shores of Europe." --Edmund Burke. (somewhere.) "A tenth branch of the king's ordinary revenue,
28said to be grounded on the consideration of his guarding and protecting the seas from pirates and robbers, is the right
29to royal fish, which are whale and sturgeon. And these, when either thrown ashore or caught near the coast, are the
30property of the king." --Blackstone. "Soon to the sport of death the crews repair: Rodmond unerring o'er his head
31suspends The barbed steel, and every turn attends." --Falconer's Shipwreck. "Bright shone the roofs, the domes, the
32spires, And rockets blew self driven, To hang their momentary fire Around the vault of heaven. "So fire with water to
33compare, The ocean serves on high, Up-spouted by a whale in air, To express unwieldy joy." --Cowper, on the Queen's
34Visit to London. "Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a stroke, with immense velocity."
35--John Hunter's account of the dissection of a whale. (A small sized one.) "The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore
36than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is
37inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood gushing from the whale's heart." --Paley's Theology. "The whale is a
38mammiferous animal without hind feet." --Baron Cuvier. "In 40 degrees south, we saw Spermacetti Whales, but did not take
39any till the first of May, the sea being then covered with them." --Colnett's Voyage for the Purpose of Extending the
40Spermaceti Whale Fishery. "In the free element beneath me swam, Floundered and dived, in play, in chace, in battle,
41Fishes of every colour, form, and kind; Which language cannot paint, and mariner Had never seen; from dread Leviathan To
42insect millions peopling every wave: Gather'd in shoals immense, like floating islands, Led by mysterious instincts
43through that waste And trackless region, though on every side Assaulted by voracious enemies, Whales, sharks, and
44monsters, arm'd in front or jaw, With swords, saws, spiral horns, or hooked fangs." --Montgomery's World before the
45Flood. "Io! Paean! Io! sing. To the finny people's king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not a
46fatter fish than he, Flounders round the Polar Sea." --Charles Lamb's Triumph of the Whale. "In the year 1690 some
47persons were on a high hill observing the whales spouting and sporting with each other, when one observed:
48there--pointing to the sea--is a green pasture where our children's grand-children will go for bread." --Obed Macy's
49History of Nantucket. "I built a cottage for Susan and myself and made a gateway in the form of a Gothic Arch, by
50setting up a whale's jaw bones." --Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales. "She came to bespeak a monument for her first love, who
51had been killed by a whale in the Pacific ocean, no less than forty years ago." --Ibid. "No, Sir, 'tis a Right Whale,"
52answered 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
53raal oil-butt, that fellow!" --Cooper's Pilot. "The papers were brought in, and we saw in the Berlin Gazette that whales
54had been introduced on the stage there." --Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe. "My God! Mr. Chace, what is the
55matter?" I answered, "we have been stove by a whale." --"Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Whale Ship Essex of
56Nantucket, which was attacked and finally destroyed by a large Sperm Whale in the Pacific Ocean." By Owen Chace of
57Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York, 1821. "A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was piping free;
58Now bright, now dimmed, was the moonlight pale, And the phospher gleamed in the wake of the whale, As it floundered in
59the sea." --Elizabeth Oakes Smith. "The quantity of line withdrawn from the boats engaged in the capture of this one
60whale, amounted altogether to 10,440 yards or nearly six English miles.... "Sometimes the whale shakes its tremendous
61tail in the air, which, cracking like a whip, resounds to the distance of three or four miles." --Scoresby. "Mad with
62the agonies he endures from these fresh attacks, the infuriated Sperm Whale rolls over and over; he rears his enormous
63head, and with wide expanded jaws snaps at everything around him; he rushes at the boats with his head; they are
64propelled before him with vast swiftness, and sometimes utterly destroyed.... It is a matter of great astonishment that
65the consideration of the habits of so interesting, and, in a commercial point of view, so important an animal (as the
66Sperm Whale) should have been so entirely neglected, or should have excited so little curiosity among the numerous, and
67many of them competent observers, that of late years, must have possessed the most abundant and the most convenient
68opportunities of witnessing their habitudes." --Thomas Beale's History of the Sperm Whale, 1839. "The Cachalot" (Sperm
69Whale) "is not only better armed than the True Whale" (Greenland or Right Whale) "in possessing a formidable weapon at
70either extremity of its body, but also more frequently displays a disposition to employ these weapons offensively and in
71manner at once so artful, bold, and mischievous, as to lead to its being regarded as the most dangerous to attack of all
72the known species of the whale tribe." --Frederick Debell Bennett's Whaling Voyage Round the Globe,
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