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Updated: June 21, 2025
"Yes with gloves, little Jack." "Sometimes," observed Cousin Benedict, "we find rather curious insects on the back of these large mammals." "Well, Mr. Benedict," replied Captain Hull, laughing, "you shall have the right to 'entomologize' when our jubarte will be alongside of the 'Pilgrim."
All this time the jubarte did not seem inclined to stop her flight, nor willing to moderate it. The second line was then lashed to the end of the first, and it was not long before it was played out with the same velocity. At the end of five minutes it was necessary to join on the third line, which ran off under the water. The jubarte did not stop.
Meanwhile, the jubarte did not rush at the boat, as there was reason to fear, and there was no necessity, before taking flight, to quickly cut the line which connected the boat with the harpoon.
The whale-boat, steered by the boatswain, glided noiselessly on the surface of those half-greased waters, as if it were floating on a bed of oil. The jubarte did not budge, and did not seem to have yet perceived the boat, which described a circle around it. Captain Hull, in making the circuit, necessarily went farther than the "Pilgrim," which gradually grew smaller in the distance.
And besides, no matter how quickly the boat might be propelled, the swift jubarte would have always overtaken it with a few bounds. It was no longer a question of attack, but of defense. Captain Hull understood it all. The third attack of the animal could not be entirely kept off.
The jubarte, in fact, had turned in such a manner as to present herself in front of the whale-boat. Then, beating the sea violently with her enormous fins, she rushed forward. The boatswain, who expected this direct blow, turned in such a fashion that the jubarte passed by the boat, but without reaching it.
"I would dare to affirm that it is a jubarte of great size," observed Dick Sand. "Truly," replied Captain Hull, who was gradually becoming more excited. "I think it is at least seventy feet long!" "Good!" added the boatswain. "Half a dozen whales of that size would suffice to fill a ship as large as ours!"
Meanwhile, as they had foreseen, the jubarte had returned to the surface of the water to breathe, with the harpoon fixed in her side all the time. She then remained almost motionless, seeming to wait for her young whale, which this furious course must have left behind. Captain Hull made use of the oars so as to join her again, and soon he was only a short distance from her.
And, if I am not mistaken, it is a special peculiarity of the jubarte." "In fact, Dick," replied Captain Hull, "there is no longer any doubt possible! It is a jubarte which floats on the surface of these red waters." "That's fine," cried little Jack. "Yes, my boy! and when we think that the great beast is there, in process of breakfasting, and little suspecting that the whalers are watching it."
And, first of all, Captain Hull sailed so as to come up to the whale on the leeward, so that no noise might disclose the boat's approach. Howik then steered the whale-boat, following the rather elongated curve of that reddish shoal, in the midst of which floated the jubarte. They would thus turn the curve.
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