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Updated: June 10, 2025
As the trapper uttered these exclamations, a vast black cloud came rolling down from the east, until its giant winds canopied the defile. It was filled with rumbling thunder, breaking at intervals into louder percussions, as the red bolts passed hissing through it. From this cloud the rain fell, not in drops, but, as the hunter had predicted, in "spouts."
For the first time, I realized how numerous those gigantic denizens of the sea really are. As far as the eye could reach, extending all round one-half of the horizon, the sea appeared to be alive with spouts all sperm whales, all bulls of great size. The value of this incredible school must have been incalculable.
Steamboat masters up at Duluth knew it, and mates and deck hands and stevedores and dockwallopers more than one steamer scraped her paint in the haste to get under the long spouts that waited to pour out grain by the hundred thousand bushels.
"Did you ever see a blacker, more peculiar looking cloud coming than that one?" demanded Tom Reade, as the high school boys emerged from the gloom of a long, narrow forest road into comparatively open country. "Is it a coming storm, or an optical delusion?" pondered Dick, halting and staring hard. "It looks like pictures I've seen of water spouts," Greg declared.
The three adventurers set to work busily, carrying the provisions, which were still fresh and wholesome, to the port dinghy which lay toward the dock. As they worked they speculated further on what could have brought about such an extraordinary situation. Their guesses ranged from water spouts to savages.
In addition to me, the skiff carried Captain Nemo, two crewmen, and the instruments in other words, a chronometer, a spyglass, and a barometer. This powerful animal is audible from far away when it sends up towering spouts of air and steam that resemble swirls of smoke.
But no sooner did the herd, by some presumed wonderful instinct of the Sperm Whale, become notified of the three keels that were after them, though as yet a mile in their rear, than they rallied again, and forming in close ranks and battalions, so that their spouts all looked like flashing lines of stacked bayonets, moved on with redoubled velocity.
"Now dear Hugh, will you make me those little spouts for the trees! of some dry wood you can get plenty out here. You want to split them up with a hollow chisel about a quarter of an inch thick, and a little more than half an inch broad. Have you got a hollow chisel?" "No, but I can get one up the hill. Why must it be hollow?" "To make little spouts, you know, for the sap to run in.
Lowest of all, you have the Sinking Sea itself. There the degenerate and enfeebled life of the Matterplay streams has for its body the whole sea. So weak is it's power that it can't succeed in creating any shapes at all but you can see its ceaseless, futile attempts to do so, in those spouts." "So the slow development of men and women is due to the feebleness of the life germ in their case?"
They seemed fond of sending up spouts from a little pond in the foreground, which had no effect except to shower passing soldiers with dirty water. However much the pond was beaten it was still there; and I was struck by the fact that this was a costly and unsuccessful system of drainage for such an efficient people as the Germans to apply.
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