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But
,
taken
for
all
in
all
,
by
far
the
finest
,
though
in
some
details
not
the
most
correct
,
presentations
of
whales
and
whaling
scenes
to
be
anywhere
found
,
are
two
large
French
engravings
,
well
executed
,
and
taken
from
paintings
by
one
Garnery
.
Respectively
,
they
represent
attacks
on
the
Sperm
and
Right
Whale
.
In
the
first
engraving
a
noble
Sperm
Whale
is
depicted
in
full
majesty
of
might
,
just
risen
beneath
the
boat
from
the
profundities
of
the
ocean
,
and
bearing
high
in
the
.
air
upon
his
back
the
terrific
wreck
of
the
stoven
planks
.
The
prow
of
the
boat
is
partially
unbroken
,
and
is
drawn
just
balancing
upon
the
monster
's
spine
;
and
standing
in
that
prow
,
for
that
one
single
incomputable
flash
of
time
,
you
behold
an
oarsman
,
half
shrouded
by
the
incensed
boiling
spout
of
the
whale
,
and
in
the
act
of
leaping
,
as
if
from
a
precipice
.
The
action
of
the
whole
thing
is
wonderfully
good
and
true
.
The
half-emptied
line-tub
floats
on
the
whitened
sea
;
the
wooden
poles
of
the
spilled
harpoons
obliquely
bob
in
it
;
the
heads
of
the
swimming
crew
are
scattered
about
the
whale
in
contrasting
expressions
of
affright
;
while
in
the
black
stormy
distance
the
ship
is
bearing
down
upon
the
scene
.
Serious
fault
might
be
found
with
the
anatomical
details
of
this
whale
,
but
let
that
pass
;
since
,
for
the
life
of
me
,
I
could
not
draw
so
good
a
one
.
In
the
second
engraving
,
the
boat
is
in
the
act
of
drawing
alongside
the
barnacled
flank
of
a
large
running
Right
Whale
,
that
rolls
his
black
weedy
bulk
in
the
sea
like
some
mossy
rock-slide
from
the
Patagonian
cliffs
.
His
jets
are
erect
,
full
,
and
black
like
soot
;
so
that
from
so
abounding
a
smoke
in
the
chimney
,
you
would
think
there
must
be
a
brave
supper
cooking
in
the
great
bowels
below
.
Sea
fowls
are
pecking
at
the
small
crabs
,
shell-fish
,
and
other
sea
candies
and
maccaroni
,
which
the
Right
Whale
sometimes
carries
on
his
pestilent
back
.
And
all
the
while
the
thick-lipped
leviathan
is
rushing
through
the
deep
,
leaving
tons
of
tumultuous
white
curds
in
his
wake
,
and
causing
the
slight
boat
to
rock
in
the
swells
like
a
skiff
caught
nigh
the
paddle-wheels
of
an
ocean
steamer
.
Thus
,
the
fore-ground
is
all
raging
commotion
;
but
behind
,
in
admirable
artistic
contrast
,
is
the
glassy
level
of
a
sea
becalmed
,
the
drooping
unstarched
sails
of
the
powerless
ship
,
and
the
inert
mass
of
a
dead
whale
,
a
conquered
fortress
,
with
the
flag
of
capture
lazily
hanging
from
the
inserted
into
his
spout-hole
.
Who
Garnery
the
painter
is
,
or
was
,
I
know
not
.
But
my
life
for
it
he
was
either
practically
conversant
with
his
subject
,
or
else
marvellously
tutored
by
some
experienced
whaleman
.
The
French
are
the
lads
for
painting
action
.
Go
and
gaze
upon
all
the
paintings
of
Europe
,
and
where
will
you
find
such
a
gallery
of
living
and
breathing
commotion
on
canvas
,
as
in
that
triumphal
hall
at
Versailles
;
where
the
beholder
fights
his
way
,
pell-mell
,
through
the
consecutive
great
battles
of
France
;
where
every
sword
seems
a
flash
of
the
Northern
Lights
,
and
the
successive
armed
kings
and
Emperors
dash
by
,
like
a
charge
of
crowned
centaurs
?
Not
wholly
unworthy
of
a
place
in
that
gallery
,
are
these
sea
battle-pieces
of
Garnery
.
The
natural
aptitude
of
the
French
for
seizing
the
picturesqueness
of
things
seems
to
be
peculiarly
evinced
in
what
paintings
and
engravings
they
have
of
their
whaling
scenes
.
With
not
one
tenth
of
England
's
experience
in
the
fishery
,
and
not
the
thousandth
part
of
that
of
the
Americans
,
they
have
nevertheless
furnished
both
nations
with
the
only
finished
sketches
at
all
capable
of
conveying
the
real
spirit
of
the
whale
hunt
.
For
the
most
part
,
the
English
and
American
whale
draughtsmen
seem
entirely
content
with
presenting
the
mechanical
outline
of
things
,
such
as
the
vacant
profile
of
the
whale
;
which
,
so
far
as
picturesqueness
of
effect
is
concerned
,
is
about
tantamount
to
sketching
the
profile
of
a
pyramid
.
Even
Scoresby
,
the
justly
renowned
Right
whaleman
,
after
giving
us
a
stiff
full
length
of
the
Greenland
whale
,
and
three
or
four
delicate
miniatures
of
narwhales
and
porpoises
,
treats
us
to
a
series
of
classical
engravings
of
boat
hooks
,
chopping
knives
,
and
grapnels
;
and
with
the
microscopic
diligence
of
a
Leuwenhoeck
submits
to
the
inspection
of
a
shivering
world
ninety-six
fac-similes
of
magnified
Arctic
snow
crystals
.
I
mean
no
disparagement
to
the
excellent
voyager
(
I
honor
him
for
a
veteran
)
,
but
in
so
important
a
matter
it
was
certainly
an
oversight
not
to
have
procured
for
every
crystal
a
sworn
affidavit
taken
before
a
Greenland
Justice
of
the
Peace
.
In
addition
to
those
fine
engravings
from
Garnery
,
there
are
two
other
French
engravings
worthy
of
note
,
by
some
one
who
subscribes
himself
"
H.
Durand
.
"
One
of
them
,
though
not
precisely
adapted
to
our
present
purpose
,
nevertheless
deserves
mention
on
other
accounts
.
It
is
a
quiet
noon-scene
among
the
isles
of
the
Pacific
;
a
French
whaler
anchored
,
inshore
,
in
a
calm
,
and
lazily
taking
water
on
board
;
the
loosened
sails
of
the
ship
,
and
the
long
leaves
of
the
palms
in
the
background
,
both
drooping
together
in
the
breezeless
air
.
The
effect
is
very
fine
,
when
considered
with
reference
to
its
presenting
the
hardy
fishermen
under
one
of
their
few
aspects
of
oriental
repose
The
other
engraving
is
quite
a
different
affair
:
the
ship
hove-to
upon
the
open
sea
,
and
in
the
very
heart
of
the
Leviathanic
life
,
with
a
Right
Whale
alongside
;
the
vessel
(
in
the
act
of
cutting-in
)
hove
over
to
the
monster
as
if
to
a
quay
;
and
a
boat
,
hurriedly
pushing
off
from
this
scene
of
activity
,
is
about
giving
chase
to
whales
in
the
distance
.
The
harpoons
and
lances
lie
levelled
for
use
;
three
oarsmen
are
just
setting
the
mast
in
its
hole
;
while
from
a
sudden
roll
of
the
ship
,
the
little
craft
stands
half-erect
out
of
the
water
,
like
a
rearing
horse
.
From
that
ship
,
the
smoke
of
the
torments
of
the
boiling
whale
is
going
up
like
the
smoke
over
a
village
of
smithies
;
and
to
windward
,
a
black
cloud
,
rising
up
with
earnest
of
squalls
and
rains
,
seems
to
quicken
the
activity
of
the
excited
seamen
.
On
Tower-hill
,
as
you
go
down
to
the
London
docks
,
you
may
have
seen
a
crippled
beggar
(
or
kedger
,
as
the
sailors
say
)
holding
a
painted
board
before
him
,
representing
the
tragic
scene
in
which
he
lost
his
leg
.
There
are
three
whales
and
three
boats
;
and
one
of
the
boats
(
presumed
to
contain
the
missing
leg
in
all
its
original
integrity
)
is
being
crunched
by
the
jaws
of
the
foremost
whale
.
Any
time
these
ten
years
,
they
tell
me
,
has
that
man
held
up
that
picture
,
and
exhibited
that
stump
to
an
incredulous
world
.
But
the
time
of
his
justification
has
now
come
.
His
three
whales
are
as
good
whales
as
were
ever
published
in
Wapping
,
at
any
rate
;
and
his
stump
as
unquestionable
a
stump
as
any
you
will
find
in
the
western
clearings
.
But
,
though
for
ever
mounted
on
that
stump
,
never
a
stump-speech
does
the
poor
whaleman
make
;
but
,
with
downcast
eyes
,
stands
ruefully
contemplating
his
own
amputation
.
