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BOOK
I.
(
Folio
)
,
CHAPTER
V.
(
Razar
Back
)
.
--
Of
this
whale
little
is
known
but
his
name
.
I
have
seen
him
at
a
distance
off
Cape
Horn
.
Of
a
retiring
nature
,
he
eludes
both
hunters
and
philosophers
.
Though
no
coward
,
he
has
never
yet
shown
any
part
of
him
but
his
back
,
which
rises
in
a
long
sharp
ridge
.
Let
him
go
.
I
know
little
more
of
him
,
nor
does
anybody
else
.
BOOK
I.
(
Folio
)
,
CHAPTER
VI
.
(
Sulphur
Bottom
)
.
--
Another
retiring
gentleman
,
with
a
brimstone
belly
,
doubtless
got
by
scraping
along
the
Tartarian
tiles
in
some
of
his
profounder
divings
.
He
is
seldom
seen
;
at
least
I
have
never
seen
him
except
in
the
remoter
southern
seas
,
and
then
always
at
too
great
a
distance
to
study
his
countenance
.
He
is
never
chased
;
he
would
run
away
with
rope-walks
of
line
.
Prodigies
are
told
of
him
.
Adieu
,
Sulphur
Bottom
!
I
can
say
nothing
more
that
is
true
of
ye
,
nor
can
the
oldest
Nantucketer
.
Thus
ends
BOOK
I.
(
Folio
)
,
and
now
begins
BOOK
II
.
(
Octavo
)
.
OCTAVOES
.
These
embrace
the
whales
of
middling
magnitude
,
among
which
present
may
be
numbered
:
--
I.
,
the
Grampus
;
II
.
,
the
Black
Fish
;
III
.
,
the
Narwhale
;
IV
.
,
the
Thrasher
;
V.
,
the
Killer
.
BOOK
II
.
(
Octavo
)
,
CHAPTER
I.
(
Grampus
)
.
--
Though
this
fish
,
whose
loud
sonorous
breathing
,
or
rather
blowing
,
has
furnished
a
proverb
to
landsmen
,
is
so
well
known
a
denizen
of
the
deep
,
yet
is
he
not
popularly
classed
among
whales
.
But
possessing
all
the
grand
distinctive
features
of
the
leviathan
,
most
naturalists
have
recognised
him
for
one
.
He
is
of
moderate
octave
size
,
varying
from
fifteen
to
twenty-five
feet
in
length
,
and
of
corresponding
dimensions
round
the
waist
.
He
swims
in
herds
;
he
is
never
regularly
hunted
,
though
his
oil
is
considerable
in
quantity
,
and
pretty
good
for
light
.
By
some
fishermen
his
approach
is
regarded
as
premonitory
of
the
advance
of
the
great
sperm
whale
.
BOOK
II
.
(
Octavo
)
,
CHAPTER
II
.
(
Black
Fish
)
.
--
I
give
the
popular
fishermen
's
names
for
all
these
fish
,
for
generally
they
are
the
best
.
Where
any
name
happens
to
be
vague
or
inexpressive
,
I
shall
say
so
,
and
suggest
another
.
I
do
so
now
touching
the
Black
Fish
,
so
called
because
blackness
is
the
rule
among
almost
all
whales
.
So
,
call
him
the
Hyena
Whale
,
if
you
please
.
His
voracity
is
well
known
and
from
the
circumstance
that
the
inner
angles
of
his
lips
are
curved
upwards
,
he
carries
an
everlasting
Mephistophelean
grin
on
his
face
.
This
whale
averages
some
sixteen
or
eighteen
feet
in
length
.
He
is
found
in
almost
all
latitudes
.
He
has
a
peculiar
way
of
showing
his
dorsal
hooked
fin
in
swimming
,
which
looks
something
like
a
Roman
nose
.
When
not
more
profitably
employed
,
the
sperm
whale
hunters
sometimes
capture
the
Hyena
whale
,
to
keep
up
the
supply
of
cheap
oil
for
domestic
employment
--
as
some
frugal
housekeepers
,
in
the
absence
of
company
,
and
quite
alone
by
themselves
,
burn
unsavory
tallow
instead
of
odorous
wax
.
Though
their
blubber
is
very
thin
,
some
of
these
whales
will
yield
you
upwards
of
thirty
gallons
of
oil
.
BOOK
II
.
(
Octavo
)
,
CHAPTER
III
.
(
Narwhale
)
,
that
is
,
Nostril
whale
.
--
Another
instance
of
a
curiously
named
whale
,
so
named
I
suppose
from
his
peculiar
horn
being
originally
mistaken
for
a
peaked
nose
.
The
creature
is
some
sixteen
feet
in
length
,
while
its
horn
averages
five
feet
,
though
some
exceed
ten
,
and
even
attain
to
fifteen
feet
.
Strictly
speaking
,
this
horn
is
but
a
lengthened
tusk
,
growing
out
from
the
jaw
in
a
line
a
little
depressed
from
the
horizontal
.
But
it
is
only
found
on
the
sinister
side
,
which
has
an
ill
effect
,
giving
its
owner
something
analogous
to
the
aspect
of
a
clumsy
left-handed
man
.
What
precise
purpose
this
ivory
horn
or
lance
answers
,
it
would
be
hard
to
say
.
It
does
not
seem
to
be
used
like
the
blade
of
the
sword-fish
and
bill-fish
;
though
some
sailors
tell
me
that
the
Narwhale
employs
it
for
a
rake
in
turning
over
the
bottom
of
the
sea
for
food
.
Charley
Coffin
said
it
was
used
for
an
ice-piercer
;
for
the
Narwhale
,
rising
to
the
surface
of
the
Polar
Sea
,
and
finding
it
sheeted
with
ice
,
thrusts
his
horn
up
,
and
so
breaks
through
.
But
you
can
not
prove
either
of
these
surmises
to
be
correct
.
My
own
opinion
is
,
that
however
this
one-sided
horn
may
really
be
used
by
the
Narwhale
--
however
that
may
be
--
it
would
certainly
be
very
convenient
to
him
for
a
folder
in
reading
pamphlets
.
The
Narwhale
I
have
heard
called
the
Tusked
whale
,
the
Horned
whale
,
and
the
Unicorn
whale
.
He
is
certainly
a
curious
example
of
the
Unicornism
to
be
found
in
almost
every
kingdom
of
animated
nature
.
From
certain
cloistered
old
authors
I
have
gathered
that
this
same
sea-unicorn
's
horn
was
in
ancient
days
regarded
as
the
great
antidote
against
poison
,
and
as
such
,
preparations
of
it
brought
immense
prices
.
It
was
also
distilled
to
a
volatile
salts
for
fainting
ladies
the
same
way
that
the
horns
of
the
male
deer
are
manufactured
into
hartshorn
.
Originally
it
was
in
itself
accounted
an
object
of
great
curiosity
.
Black
Letter
tells
me
that
Sir
Martin
Frobisher
on
his
return
from
that
voyage
,
when
Queen
Bess
did
gallantly
wave
her
jewelled
hand
to
him
from
a
window
of
Greenwich
Palace
,
as
his
bold
ship
sailed
down
the
Thames
;
"
when
Sir
Martin
returned
from
that
voyage
,
"
saith
Black
Letter
,
"
on
bended
knees
he
presented
to
her
highness
a
prodigious
long
horn
of
the
Narwhale
,
which
for
a
long
period
after
hung
in
the
castle
at
Windsor
.
"
An
Irish
author
avers
that
the
Earl
of
Leicester
,
on
bended
knees
,
did
likewise
present
to
her
highness
another
horn
,
pertaining
to
a
land
beast
of
the
unicorn
nature
.
