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Small craft radiated in all directions round the Abraham Lincoln as she lay to, and did not leave a spot of the sea unexplored; There appeared in the papers caricatures of every gigantic and imaginary creature, from the white whale, the terrible "Moby Dick" of sub-arctic regions, to the immense kraken, whose tentacles could entangle a ship of five hundred tons and hurry it into the abyss of the ocean. It was a grand defiance given to the giant:
