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Now
,
though
such
great
bodies
are
at
times
encountered
,
yet
,
as
must
have
been
seen
,
even
at
the
present
day
,
small
detached
bands
are
occasionally
observed
,
embracing
from
twenty
to
fifty
individuals
each
.
Such
bands
are
known
as
schools
.
They
generally
are
of
two
sorts
;
those
composed
almost
entirely
of
females
,
and
those
mustering
none
but
young
vigorous
males
,
or
bulls
as
they
are
familiarly
designated
.
In
cavalier
attendance
upon
the
school
of
females
,
you
invariably
see
a
male
of
full
grown
magnitude
,
but
not
old
;
who
,
upon
any
alarm
,
evinces
his
gallantry
by
falling
in
the
rear
and
covering
the
flight
of
his
ladies
.
In
truth
,
this
gentleman
is
a
luxurious
Ottoman
,
swimming
about
over
the
watery
world
,
surroundingly
accompanied
by
all
the
solaces
and
endearments
of
the
harem
.
The
contrast
between
this
Ottoman
and
his
concubines
is
striking
;
because
,
while
he
is
always
of
the
largest
leviathanic
proportions
,
the
ladies
,
even
at
full
growth
,
are
not
more
than
one-third
of
the
bulk
of
an
average-sized
male
.
They
are
comparatively
delicate
,
indeed
;
I
dare
say
,
not
to
exceed
half
a
dozen
yards
round
the
waist
.
Nevertheless
,
it
can
not
be
denied
,
that
upon
the
whole
they
are
hereditarily
entitled
to
embonpoint
.
It
is
very
curious
to
watch
this
harem
and
its
lord
in
their
indolent
ramblings
.
Like
fashionables
,
they
are
for
ever
on
the
move
in
leisurely
search
of
variety
.
You
meet
them
on
the
Line
in
time
for
the
full
flower
of
the
Equatorial
feeding
season
,
having
just
returned
,
perhaps
,
from
spending
the
summer
in
the
Northern
seas
,
and
so
cheating
summer
of
all
unpleasant
weariness
and
warmth
.
By
the
time
they
have
lounged
up
and
down
the
promenade
of
the
Equator
awhile
,
they
start
for
the
Oriental
waters
in
anticipation
of
the
cool
season
there
,
and
so
evade
the
other
excessive
temperature
of
the
year
.
When
serenely
advancing
on
one
of
these
journeys
,
if
any
strange
suspicious
sights
are
seen
,
my
lord
whale
keeps
a
wary
eye
on
his
interesting
family
.
Should
any
unwarranted
pert
young
Leviathan
coming
that
way
,
presume
to
draw
confidentially
close
to
one
of
the
ladies
,
with
what
prodigious
fury
the
Bashaw
assails
him
,
and
chases
him
away
!
High
times
,
indeed
,
if
unprincipled
young
rakes
like
him
are
to
be
permitted
to
invade
the
sanctity
of
domestic
bliss
;
though
do
what
the
Bashaw
will
,
he
can
not
keep
the
most
notorious
Lothario
out
of
his
bed
;
for
alas
!
all
fish
bed
in
common
.
As
ashore
,
the
ladies
often
cause
the
most
terrible
duels
among
their
rival
admirers
;
just
so
with
the
whales
,
who
sometimes
come
to
deadly
battle
,
and
all
for
love
.
They
fence
with
their
long
lower
jaws
,
sometimes
locking
them
together
,
and
so
striving
for
the
supremacy
like
elks
that
warringly
interweave
their
antlers
.
Not
a
few
are
captured
having
the
deep
scars
of
these
encounters
--
furrowed
heads
,
broken
teeth
,
scolloped
fins
;
and
in
some
instances
,
wrenched
and
dislocated
mouths
.
But
supposing
the
invader
of
domestic
bliss
to
betake
himself
away
at
the
first
rush
of
the
harem
's
lord
,
then
is
it
very
diverting
to
watch
that
lord
.
Gently
he
insinuates
his
vast
bulk
among
them
again
and
revels
there
awhile
,
still
in
tantalizing
vicinity
to
young
Lothario
,
like
pious
Solomon
devoutly
worshipping
among
his
thousand
concubines
.
Granting
other
whales
to
be
in
sight
,
the
fisherman
will
seldom
give
chase
to
one
of
these
Grand
Turks
;
for
these
Grand
Turks
are
too
lavish
of
their
strength
,
and
hence
their
unctuousness
is
small
.
As
for
the
sons
and
daughters
they
beget
,
why
,
those
sons
and
daughters
must
take
care
of
themselves
;
at
least
,
with
only
the
maternal
help
.
For
like
certain
other
omnivorous
roving
lovers
that
might
be
named
,
my
Lord
Whale
has
no
taste
for
the
nursery
,
however
much
for
the
bower
;
and
so
,
being
a
great
traveller
,
he
leaves
his
anonymous
babies
all
over
the
world
;
every
baby
an
exotic
.
In
good
time
,
nevertheless
,
as
the
ardor
of
youth
declines
;
as
years
and
dumps
increase
;
as
reflection
lends
her
solemn
pauses
;
in
short
,
as
a
general
lassitude
overtakes
the
sated
Turk
;
then
a
love
of
ease
and
virtue
supplants
the
love
for
maidens
;
our
Ottoman
enters
upon
the
impotent
,
repentant
,
admonitory
stage
of
life
,
forswears
,
disbands
the
harem
,
and
grown
to
an
exemplary
,
sulky
old
soul
,
goes
about
all
alone
among
the
meridians
and
parallels
saying
his
prayers
,
and
warning
each
young
Leviathan
from
his
amorous
errors
.
Now
,
as
the
harem
of
whales
is
called
by
the
fishermen
a
school
,
so
is
the
lord
and
master
of
that
school
technically
known
as
the
schoolmaster
.
It
is
therefore
not
in
strict
character
,
however
admirably
satirical
,
that
after
going
to
school
himself
,
he
should
then
go
abroad
inculcating
not
what
he
learned
there
,
but
the
folly
of
it
.
His
title
,
schoolmaster
,
would
very
naturally
seem
derived
from
the
name
bestowed
upon
the
harem
itself
,
but
some
have
surmised
that
the
man
who
first
thus
entitled
this
sort
of
Ottoman
whale
,
must
have
read
the
memoirs
of
Vidocq
,
and
informed
himself
what
sort
of
a
country-schoolmaster
that
famous
Frenchman
was
in
his
younger
days
,
and
what
was
the
nature
of
those
occult
lessons
he
inculcated
into
some
of
his
pupils
.
The
same
secludedness
and
isolation
to
which
the
schoolmaster
whale
betakes
himself
in
his
advancing
years
,
is
true
of
all
aged
Sperm
Whales
.
Almost
universally
,
a
lone
whale
--
as
a
solitary
Leviathan
is
called
--
proves
an
ancient
one
.
Like
venerable
moss-bearded
Daniel
Boone
,
he
will
have
no
one
near
him
but
Nature
herself
;
and
her
he
takes
to
wife
in
the
wilderness
of
waters
,
and
the
best
of
wives
she
is
,
though
she
keeps
so
many
moody
secrets
.
The
schools
composing
none
but
young
and
vigorous
males
,
previously
mentioned
,
offer
a
strong
contrast
to
the
harem
schools
For
while
those
females
are
characteristically
timid
,
the
young
males
,
or
forty-barrel-bulls
,
as
they
call
them
,
are
by
far
the
most
pugnacious
of
all
Leviathans
,
and
proverbially
the
most
dangerous
to
encounter
;
excepting
those
wondrous
grey-headed
,
grizzled
whales
,
sometimes
met
,
and
these
will
fight
you
like
grim
fiends
exasperated
by
a
penal
gout
.
