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In
old
times
,
there
seem
to
have
prevailed
the
most
curious
fancies
concerning
these
blinds
.
One
voyager
in
Purchas
calls
them
the
wondrous
"
whiskers
"
inside
of
the
whale
's
mouth
;
another
,
"
hogs
'
bristles
"
;
a
third
old
gentleman
in
Hackluyt
uses
the
following
elegant
language
:
"
There
are
about
two
hundred
and
fifty
fins
growing
on
each
side
of
his
upper
chop
,
which
arch
over
his
tongue
on
each
side
of
his
mouth
.
"
As
every
one
knows
,
these
same
"
hogs
'
bristles
,
"
"
fins
,
"
"
whiskers
,
"
"
blinds
,
"
or
whatever
you
please
,
furnish
to
the
ladies
their
busks
and
other
stiffening
contrivances
.
But
in
this
particular
,
the
demand
has
long
been
on
the
decline
.
It
was
in
Queen
Anne
's
time
that
the
bone
was
in
its
glory
,
the
farthingale
being
then
all
the
fashion
.
And
as
those
ancient
dames
moved
about
gaily
,
though
in
the
jaws
of
the
whale
,
as
you
may
say
;
even
so
,
in
a
shower
,
with
the
like
thoughtlessness
,
do
we
nowadays
fly
under
the
same
jaws
for
protection
;
the
umbrella
being
a
tent
spread
over
the
same
bone
.
But
now
forget
all
about
blinds
and
whiskers
for
a
moment
,
and
,
standing
in
the
Right
Whale
's
mouth
,
look
around
you
afresh
.
Seeing
all
these
colonnades
of
bone
so
methodically
ranged
about
,
would
you
not
think
you
were
inside
of
the
great
Haarlem
organ
,
and
gazing
upon
its
thousand
pipes
?
For
a
carpet
to
the
organ
we
have
a
rug
of
the
softest
Turkey
--
the
tongue
,
which
is
glued
,
as
it
were
,
to
the
floor
of
the
mouth
.
It
is
very
fat
and
tender
,
and
apt
to
tear
in
pieces
in
hoisting
it
on
deck
.
This
particular
tongue
now
before
us
;
at
a
passing
glance
I
should
say
it
was
a
six-barreler
;
that
is
,
it
will
yield
you
about
that
amount
of
oil
.
Ere
this
,
you
must
have
plainly
seen
the
truth
of
what
I
started
with
--
that
the
Sperm
Whale
and
the
Right
Whale
have
almost
entirely
different
heads
.
To
sum
up
,
then
:
in
the
Right
Whale
's
there
is
no
great
well
of
sperm
;
no
ivory
teeth
at
all
;
no
long
,
slender
mandible
of
a
lower
jaw
,
like
the
Sperm
Whale
's
.
Nor
in
the
Sperm
Whale
are
there
any
of
those
blinds
of
bone
;
no
huge
lower
lip
;
and
scarcely
anything
of
a
tongue
.
Again
,
the
Right
Whale
has
two
external
spout-holes
,
the
Sperm
Whale
only
one
.
Look
your
last
now
,
on
these
venerable
hooded
heads
,
while
they
yet
lie
together
;
for
one
will
soon
sink
,
unrecorded
,
in
the
sea
;
the
other
will
not
be
very
long
in
following
Can
you
catch
the
expression
of
the
Sperm
Whale
's
there
?
It
is
the
same
he
died
with
,
only
some
of
the
longer
wrinkles
in
the
forehead
seem
now
faded
away
.
I
think
his
broad
brow
to
be
full
of
a
prairie-like
placidity
,
born
of
a
speculative
indifference
as
to
death
.
But
mark
the
other
head
's
expression
.
See
that
amazing
lower
lip
,
pressed
by
accident
against
the
vessel
's
side
,
so
as
firmly
to
embrace
the
jaw
.
Does
not
this
whole
head
seem
to
speak
of
an
enormous
practical
resolution
facing
death
?
This
Right
Whale
I
take
to
have
been
a
Stoic
;
the
Sperm
Whale
,
a
Platonian
,
who
might
have
taken
up
Spinoza
in
his
latter
years
.
Ere
quitting
,
for
the
nonce
,
the
Sperm
Whale
's
head
,
I
would
have
you
,
as
a
sensible
physiologist
,
simply
--
particularly
remark
its
front
aspect
,
in
all
its
compacted
collectedness
.
I
would
have
you
investigate
it
now
with
the
sole
view
of
forming
to
yourself
some
unexaggerated
,
intelligent
estimate
of
whatever
battering-ram
power
may
be
lodged
there
.
Here
is
a
vital
point
;
for
you
must
either
satisfactorily
settle
this
matter
with
yourself
,
or
for
ever
remain
an
infidel
as
to
one
of
the
most
appalling
,
but
not
the
less
true
events
,
perhaps
anywhere
to
be
found
in
all
recorded
history
.
You
observe
that
in
the
ordinary
swimming
position
of
the
Sperm
Whale
,
the
front
of
his
head
presents
an
almost
wholly
vertical
plane
to
the
water
;
you
observe
that
the
lower
part
of
that
front
slopes
considerably
backwards
,
so
as
to
furnish
more
of
a
retreat
for
the
long
socket
which
receives
the
boom-like
lower
jaw
;
you
observe
that
the
mouth
is
entirely
under
the
head
,
much
in
the
same
way
,
indeed
,
as
though
your
own
mouth
were
entirely
under
your
chin
.
Moreover
you
observe
that
the
whale
has
no
external
nose
;
and
that
what
nose
he
has
--
his
spout
hole
--
is
on
the
top
of
his
head
;
you
observe
that
his
eyes
and
ears
are
at
the
sides
of
his
head
;
nearly
one
third
of
his
entire
length
from
the
front
.
Wherefore
,
you
must
now
have
perceived
that
the
front
of
the
Sperm
Whale
's
head
is
a
dead
,
blind
wall
,
without
a
single
organ
or
tender
prominence
of
any
sort
whatsoever
.
Furthermore
,
you
are
now
to
consider
that
only
in
the
extreme
,
lower
,
backward
sloping
part
of
the
front
of
the
head
,
is
there
the
slightest
vestige
of
bone
;
and
not
till
you
get
near
twenty
feet
from
the
forehead
do
you
come
to
the
full
cranial
development
.
So
that
this
whole
enormous
boneless
mass
is
as
one
wad
.
Finally
,
though
,
as
will
soon
be
revealed
,
its
contents
partly
comprise
the
most
delicate
oil
;
yet
,
you
are
now
to
be
apprised
of
the
nature
of
the
substance
which
so
impregnably
invests
all
that
apparent
effeminacy
.
In
some
previous
place
I
have
described
to
you
how
the
blubber
wraps
the
body
of
the
whale
,
as
the
rind
wraps
an
orange
.
Just
so
with
the
head
;
but
with
this
difference
:
about
the
head
this
envelope
,
though
not
so
thick
is
of
a
boneless
toughness
,
inestimable
by
any
man
who
has
not
handled
it
.
The
severest
pointed
harpoon
,
the
sharpest
lance
darted
by
the
strongest
human
arm
,
impotently
rebounds
from
it
.
It
is
as
though
the
forehead
of
the
Sperm
Whale
were
paved
with
horses
'
hoofs
.
I
do
not
think
that
any
sensation
lurks
in
it
.
