Are sufficient, it will attack this huge cetacean, and torture him till
he submits and gives a horrible feast to their greed. Captain Handy had
seen thirty or forty of them at this business. They fly with
inconceivable fury at their victim, aiming chiefly at the lip, tearing
great mouthfuls away, which they instantly reject while darting for
another. The bleeding and bellowing monster goes down like a boulder
from a cliff, shoots up like a shell from a mortar, beats the sea about
him all into crimsoned spray with his tail; but plunge, leap, foam as he
may, the finny pirates flesh their teeth in him still, still are fresh
in pursuit, until at length, to end one torment by submitting to
another, the helpless giant opens his mouth, and permits these
sea-devils to devour the quivering morsel they covet. A big morsel; for
the tongue of the full-sized right-whale weighs a ton and a half, and
yields a ton of oil. The killer is sometimes confounded with the
grampus. The latter is considerably larger, has a longer and slenderer
jaw, less round at the muzzle, smaller teeth, and "isn't so clean a made
fish"; for, in nautical parlance, cetaceans are still fish. Killers
frequently try to rob whalers of their prize, and sometimes actually
succeed in carrying it down, despite the lances and other weapons with
which their attack is so strenuously resisted. Item, cascade. A snowy,
broken stripe down a mountain-side; taken to be snow till the ear better
informed the eye. Fine; but you need not go there to see. _June
26._--Off to Henley Harbor, sixty-five miles, at the head of the Strait
of Belle Isle. Belle Isle itself--sandstone, rich, the Professor said,
in ancient fossils--lay in view. The anchor went down

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