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From the time of our wonderful escape from being destroyed by the whale, until the occurrence which I am about to relate, I remember nothing distinctly all seems vague and dream-like.
"You said that you pulled the second oar from the bow on the day in which the whale was killed." "Yes." "Are you quite sure of that? Was it not the third oar, now?" "Yes or no," interrupted Mr Tooth. "It's so long since " "Yes or no," repeated Mr Tooth.
He rushed up the rapids as if he had determined to return to the lake, and down again as if he had changed his plans and determined to go to the Saguenay. He sulked in the deep water and rubbed his nose against the rocks. He did his best to treat that treacherous grasshopper as the whale served Jonah. But Greygown, through all her little screams and shouts of excitement, was steady and sage.
For a moment the whale seemed paralysed by the shock, and its vast frame quivered with agony; but recovering quickly, it rushed with open jaws upon its strange assailant which immediately dived, and both vanished.
However, he had the stern-boat lowered from its pegs, and towed it along, so that the captain and his companions might take refuge in it, in case of need. At that moment the jubarte, covering the young whale with her body, had returned to the charge. This time she turned in such a manner as to reach the boat exactly. "Attention, Howik!" cried Captain Hull, for the last time.
When a whale thus leaps his whole length out of the water, the sailors say he "breaches," and breaching is a common practice. They seem to do it often for amusement as well as from terror. But the most deadly of the three enemies is the killer. This is itself a kind of small whale, but it is wonderfully strong, swift, and bold.
Once more the ship rocked from a terrific blow, and the old hunter was nearly thrown out and into the fathomless depths below. He clung to the door lever and peered out. Through the big glass eyes of his copper helmet he saw headed straight at him a whale that seemed larger than the submarine.
Forward was found a number of great casks, such as are used to receive the blubber cut from the whale. "She is a whaler, evidently," exclaimed the captain. In the forecastle there was nothing except some hammocks and a chest or two. "We can get warmer clothing than what we possess, anyhow," remarked the captain. "Now, what's the best thing to do?"
Moose was whale once. Away down Merrimack way, a whale came ashore in a shallow bay. Sea went out and left him, and he came up on land a moose.
I supposed at first it might be a spermaceti whale, for numbers used to play round the island at certain seasons, and I used to watch their blowing and their gambols, if I may use the term, and Jackson, often told me long stories about the whale-fisheries; but a ray of the setting sun made the object appear white, and I ran for the glass, and made out that it was a boat or a very small vessel, with a sail out, and running before the gale right down to the island.
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