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In
that
up
and
down
manly
book
of
old-fashioned
adventure
,
so
full
,
too
,
of
honest
wonders
--
the
voyage
of
Lionel
Wafer
,
one
of
ancient
Dampier
's
old
chums
--
I
found
a
little
matter
set
down
so
like
that
just
quoted
from
Langsdorff
,
that
I
can
not
forbear
inserting
it
here
for
a
corroborative
example
,
if
such
be
needed
.
Lionel
,
it
seems
,
was
on
his
way
to
"
John
Ferdinando
,
"
as
he
calls
the
modern
Juan
Fernandes
.
"
In
our
way
thither
,
"
he
says
,
"
about
four
o'clock
in
the
morning
,
when
we
were
about
one
hundred
and
fifty
leagues
from
the
Main
of
America
,
our
ship
felt
a
terrible
shock
,
which
put
our
men
in
such
consternation
that
they
could
hardly
tell
where
they
were
or
what
to
think
;
but
every
one
began
to
prepare
for
death
.
And
,
indeed
,
the
shock
was
so
sudden
and
violent
,
that
we
took
it
for
granted
the
ship
had
struck
against
a
rock
;
but
when
the
amazement
was
a
little
over
,
we
cast
the
lead
,
and
sounded
,
but
found
no
ground
...
The
suddenness
of
the
shock
made
the
guns
leap
in
their
carriages
,
and
several
of
the
men
were
shaken
out
of
their
hammocks
.
Captain
Davis
,
who
lay
with
his
head
on
a
gun
,
was
thrown
out
of
his
cabin
!
"
Lionel
then
goes
on
to
impute
the
shock
to
an
earthquake
,
and
seems
to
substantiate
the
imputation
by
stating
that
a
great
earthquake
,
somewhere
about
that
time
,
did
actually
do
great
mischief
along
the
Spanish
land
.
But
I
should
not
much
wonder
if
,
in
the
darkness
of
that
early
hour
of
the
morning
,
the
shock
was
after
all
caused
by
an
unseen
whale
vertically
bumping
the
hull
from
beneath
.
I
might
proceed
with
several
more
examples
,
one
way
or
another
known
to
me
,
of
the
great
power
and
malice
at
times
of
the
sperm
whale
.
In
more
than
one
instance
,
he
has
been
known
,
not
only
to
chase
the
assailing
boats
back
to
their
ships
,
but
to
pursue
the
ship
itself
,
and
long
withstand
all
the
lances
hurled
at
him
from
its
decks
.
The
English
ship
Pusie
Hall
can
tell
a
story
on
that
head
;
and
,
as
for
his
strength
,
let
me
say
,
that
there
have
been
examples
where
the
lines
attached
to
a
running
sperm
whale
have
,
in
a
calm
,
been
transferred
to
the
ship
,
and
secured
there
!
the
whale
towing
her
great
hull
through
the
water
,
as
a
horse
walks
off
with
a
cart
.
Again
,
it
is
very
often
observed
that
,
if
the
sperm
whale
,
once
struck
,
is
allowed
time
to
rally
,
he
then
acts
,
not
so
often
with
blind
rage
,
as
with
wilful
,
deliberate
designs
of
destruction
to
his
pursuers
;
nor
is
it
without
conveying
some
eloquent
indication
of
his
character
,
that
upon
being
attacked
he
will
frequently
open
his
mouth
,
and
retain
it
in
that
dread
expansion
for
several
consecutive
minutes
.
But
I
must
be
content
with
only
one
more
and
a
concluding
illustration
;
a
remarkable
and
most
significant
one
,
by
which
you
will
not
fail
to
see
,
that
not
only
is
the
most
marvellous
event
in
this
book
corroborated
by
plain
facts
of
the
present
day
,
but
that
these
marvels
(
like
all
marvels
)
are
mere
repetitions
of
the
ages
;
so
that
for
the
millionth
time
we
say
amen
with
Solomon
--
Verily
there
is
nothing
new
under
the
sun
.
In
the
sixth
Christian
century
lived
Procopius
,
a
Christian
magistrate
of
Constantinople
,
in
the
days
when
Justinian
was
Emperor
and
Belisarius
general
.
As
many
know
,
he
wrote
the
history
of
his
own
times
,
a
work
every
way
of
uncommon
value
.
By
the
best
authorities
,
he
has
always
been
considered
a
most
trustworthy
and
unexaggerating
historian
,
except
in
some
one
or
two
particulars
,
not
at
all
affecting
the
matter
presently
to
be
mentioned
.
Now
,
in
this
history
of
his
,
Procopius
mentions
that
,
during
the
term
of
his
prefecture
at
Constantinople
,
a
great
sea-monster
was
captured
in
the
neighboring
Propontis
,
or
Sea
of
Marmora
,
after
having
destroyed
vessels
at
intervals
in
those
waters
for
a
period
of
more
than
fifty
years
.
A
fact
thus
set
down
in
substantial
history
can
not
easily
be
gainsaid
.
Nor
is
there
any
reason
it
should
be
.
Of
what
precise
species
this
sea-monster
was
,
is
not
mentioned
.
But
as
he
destroyed
ships
,
as
well
as
for
other
reasons
,
he
must
have
been
a
whale
;
and
I
am
strongly
inclined
to
think
a
sperm
whale
.
And
I
will
tell
you
why
For
a
long
time
I
fancied
that
the
sperm
whale
had
been
always
unknown
in
the
Mediterranean
and
the
deep
waters
connecting
with
it
.
Even
now
I
am
certain
that
those
seas
are
not
,
and
perhaps
never
can
be
,
in
the
present
constitution
of
things
,
a
place
for
his
habitual
gregarious
resort
.
But
further
investigations
have
recently
proved
to
me
,
that
in
modern
times
there
have
been
isolated
instances
of
the
presence
of
the
sperm
whale
in
the
Mediterranean
.
I
am
told
,
on
good
authority
,
that
on
the
Barbary
coast
,
a
Commodore
Davis
of
the
British
navy
found
the
skeleton
of
a
sperm
whale
.
Now
,
as
a
vessel
of
war
readily
passes
through
the
Dardanelles
,
hence
a
sperm
whale
could
,
by
the
same
route
,
pass
out
of
the
Mediterranean
into
the
Propontis
.
In
the
Propontis
,
as
far
as
I
can
learn
,
none
of
that
peculiar
substance
called
brit
is
to
be
found
,
the
aliment
of
the
right
whale
.
But
I
have
every
reason
to
believe
that
the
food
of
the
sperm
whale
--
squid
or
cuttle-fish-lurks
at
the
bottom
of
that
sea
,
because
large
creatures
,
but
by
no
means
the
largest
of
that
sort
,
have
been
found
at
its
surface
.
If
,
then
,
you
properly
put
these
statements
together
,
and
reason
upon
them
a
bit
,
you
will
clearly
perceive
that
,
according
to
all
human
reasoning
,
Procopius
's
sea-monster
,
that
for
half
a
century
stove
the
ships
of
a
Roman
Emperor
,
must
in
all
probability
have
been
a
sperm
whale
.
Though
,
consumed
with
the
hot
fire
of
his
purpose
,
Ahab
in
all
his
thoughts
and
actions
ever
had
in
view
the
ultimate
capture
of
Moby
Dick
;
though
he
seemed
ready
to
sacrifice
all
mortal
interests
to
that
one
passion
;
nevertheless
it
may
have
been
that
he
was
by
nature
and
long
habituation
far
too
wedded
to
a
fiery
whaleman
's
ways
,
altogether
to
abandon
the
collateral
prosecution
of
the
voyage
.
Or
at
least
if
this
were
otherwise
,
there
were
not
wanting
other
motives
much
more
influential
with
him
.
It
would
be
refining
too
much
,
perhaps
,
even
considering
his
monomania
,
to
hint
that
his
vindictiveness
towards
the
White
Whale
might
have
possibly
extended
itself
in
some
degree
to
all
sperm
whales
,
and
that
the
more
monsters
he
slew
by
so
much
the
more
he
multiplied
the
chances
that
each
subsequently
encountered
whale
would
prove
to
be
the
hated
one
he
hunted
.
But
if
such
an
hypothesis
be
indeed
exceptionable
,
there
were
still
additional
considerations
which
,
though
not
so
strictly
according
with
the
wildness
of
his
ruling
passion
,
yet
were
by
no
means
incapable
of
swaying
him
.
