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Updated: May 19, 2025
Captain Deblois was at this time standing in the night-heads on the larboard bow, with lance in hand, ready to strike the monster a deadly blow should he appear, the ship moving about five knots, when working on the side of the ship, he discovered the whale rushing toward her at the rate of fifteen knots!
The bold and manly-looking mariner, who controlled her, stood between the night-heads, just above the image of his pretended mistress, where he examined the foaming reefs, the whirling eddies, and the varying currents, with folded arms and a riveted eye. A glance was exchanged between the two officers, and the free-trader raised his sea-cap.
As he looked over the gangway and bow, coming round on the lee side of the forecastle, he saw some canvas hanging on one of the night-heads. "What have we here?" said he. No one answered. He looked over the fore-chains, and found the whole lower studding-sail towing in the water. "No wonder she don't move," said the mate; "here is enough to stop the Constitution herself.
As he looked over the gangway and bow, coming round on the lee side of the forecastle, he saw some canvas hanging on one of the night-heads "What have we here?" said he. No one answered. He looked over the fore chains, and found the whole lower studding-sail towing in the water. "No wonder she don't move," said the mate; "here is enough to stop the Constitution herself.
At 3 P.M. the jib was washed off the bowsprit and blown to rags and ribbons. I bent the "jumbo" on a stay at the night-heads. As for the jib, let it go; I saved pieces of it, and, after all, I was in want of pot-rags. On August 3 the gale broke, and I saw many signs of land.
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