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Updated: May 13, 2025

"It's not as high an' thin as a finback's, it's not large enough for the low, bushy spout of a humpback, an' it goes straight up instead of at a forward angle so it can't be a sperm. Must be a gray whale, can't be anythin' else." For a few minutes the men rested on their oars, and Colin grew restless. "Why doesn't he come up again?" he said impatiently. "First thing we know he'll be out of sight!"

Francis Rolt-Wheeler - The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries