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The
Narwhale
has
a
very
picturesque
,
leopard-like
look
,
being
of
a
milk-white
ground
color
,
dotted
with
round
and
oblong
spots
of
black
.
His
oil
is
very
superior
,
clear
and
fine
;
but
there
is
little
of
it
,
and
he
is
seldom
hunted
.
He
is
mostly
found
in
the
circumpolar
seas
.
BOOK
II
.
(
Octavo
)
,
CHAPTER
IV
.
(
Killer
)
.
--
Of
this
whale
little
is
precisely
known
to
the
Nantucketer
,
and
nothing
at
all
to
the
professed
naturalists
.
From
what
I
have
seen
of
him
at
a
distance
,
I
should
say
that
he
was
about
the
bigness
of
a
grampus
.
He
is
very
savage
--
a
sort
of
Feegee
fish
.
He
sometimes
takes
the
great
Folio
whales
by
the
lip
,
and
hangs
there
like
a
leech
,
till
the
mighty
brute
is
worried
to
death
.
The
Killer
is
never
hunted
.
I
never
heard
what
sort
of
oil
he
has
.
Exception
might
be
taken
to
the
name
bestowed
upon
this
whale
,
on
the
ground
of
its
indistinctness
.
For
we
are
all
killers
,
on
land
and
on
sea
;
Bonapartes
and
Sharks
included
.
BOOK
II
.
(
Octavo
)
,
CHAPTER
V.
(
Thrasher
)
.
--
This
gentleman
is
famous
for
his
tail
which
he
uses
for
a
ferule
in
thrashing
his
foes
.
He
mounts
the
Folio
whale
's
back
,
and
as
he
swims
,
he
works
his
passage
by
flogging
him
;
as
some
schoolmasters
get
along
in
the
world
by
a
similar
process
.
Still
less
is
known
of
the
Thrasher
than
of
the
Killer
.
Both
are
outlaws
,
even
in
the
lawless
seas
.
Thus
ends
BOOK
II
.
(
Octavo
)
,
and
begins
BOOK
III
,
(
Duodecimo
.
)
DUODECIMOES
.
--
These
include
the
smaller
whales
.
I
.
The
Huzza
Porpoise
.
II
.
The
Algerine
Porpoise
.
III
.
The
Mealy-mouthed
Porpoise
.
To
those
who
have
not
chanced
specially
to
study
the
subject
,
it
may
possibly
seem
strange
,
that
fishes
not
commonly
exceeding
four
or
five
feet
should
be
marshalled
among
Whales
--
a
word
,
which
,
in
the
popular
sense
,
always
conveys
an
idea
of
hugeness
.
But
the
creatures
set
down
above
as
Duodecimoes
are
infallibly
whales
,
by
the
terms
of
my
definition
of
what
a
whale
is
--
i.
e.
a
spouting
fish
,
with
a
horizontal
tail
.
BOOK
III
.
(
Duodecimo
)
,
CHAPTER
1
.
(
Huzza
Porpoise
)
.
--
This
is
the
common
porpoise
found
all
over
the
globe
.
The
name
is
of
my
own
bestowal
;
for
there
are
more
than
one
sort
of
porpoises
,
and
something
must
be
done
to
distinguish
them
.
I
call
him
thus
,
because
he
always
swims
in
hilarious
shoals
,
which
upon
the
broad
sea
keep
tossing
themselves
to
heaven
like
caps
in
a
Fourth-of-July
crowd
.
Their
appearance
is
generally
hailed
with
delight
by
the
mariner
.
Full
of
fine
spirits
,
they
invariably
come
from
the
breezy
billows
to
windward
.
They
are
the
lads
that
always
live
before
the
wind
.
They
are
accounted
a
lucky
omen
.
If
you
yourself
can
withstand
three
cheers
at
beholding
these
vivacious
fish
,
then
heaven
help
ye
;
the
spirit
of
godly
gamesomeness
is
not
in
ye
.
A
well-fed
,
plump
Huzza
Porpoise
will
yield
you
one
good
gallon
of
good
oil
.
But
the
fine
and
delicate
fluid
extracted
from
his
jaws
is
exceedingly
valuable
.
It
is
in
request
among
jewellers
and
watchmakers
.
Sailors
put
in
on
their
hones
.
Porpoise
meat
is
good
eating
,
you
know
.
It
may
never
have
occurred
to
you
that
a
porpoise
spouts
.
Indeed
,
his
spout
is
so
small
that
it
is
not
very
readily
discernible
.
But
the
next
time
you
have
a
chance
,
watch
him
;
and
you
will
then
see
the
great
Sperm
whale
himself
in
miniature
.
BOOK
III
.
(
Duodecimo
)
,
CHAPTER
II
.
(
Algerine
Porpoise
)
.
--
A
pirate
.
Very
savage
.
He
is
only
found
,
I
think
,
in
the
Pacific
.
He
is
somewhat
larger
than
the
Huzza
Porpoise
,
but
much
of
the
same
general
make
.
Provoke
him
,
and
he
will
buckle
to
a
shark
.
I
have
lowered
for
him
many
times
,
but
never
yet
saw
him
captured
.
BOOK
III
.
(
Duodecimo
)
,
CHAPTER
III
.
(
Mealy-mouthed
Porpoise
)
.
--
The
largest
kind
of
Porpoise
;
and
only
found
in
the
Pacific
,
so
far
as
it
is
known
.
The
only
English
name
,
by
which
he
has
hitherto
been
designated
,
is
that
of
the
fisher
--
Right-Whale
Porpoise
,
from
the
circumstance
that
he
is
chiefly
found
in
the
vicinity
of
that
Folio
.
In
shape
,
he
differs
in
some
degree
from
the
Huzza
Porpoise
,
being
of
a
less
rotund
and
jolly
girth
;
indeed
,
he
is
of
quite
a
neat
and
gentleman-like
figure
.
He
has
no
fins
on
his
back
(
most
other
porpoises
have
)
,
he
has
a
lovely
tail
,
and
sentimental
Indian
eyes
of
a
hazel
hue
.
But
his
mealy-mouth
spoils
him
.
Though
his
entire
back
down
to
his
side
fins
is
of
a
deep
sable
,
yet
a
boundary
line
,
distinct
as
the
mark
in
a
ship
's
hull
,
called
the
"
bright
waist
,
"
that
line
streaks
him
from
stem
to
stern
,
with
two
separate
colors
,
black
above
and
white
below
.
The
white
comprises
part
of
his
head
,
and
the
whole
of
his
mouth
,
which
makes
him
look
as
if
he
had
just
escaped
from
a
felonious
visit
to
a
meal-bag
.
A
most
mean
and
mealy
aspect
!
His
oil
is
much
like
that
of
the
common
porpoise
.
Beyond
the
DUODECIMO
,
this
system
does
not
proceed
,
inasmuch
as
the
Porpoise
is
the
smallest
of
the
whales
.
Above
,
you
have
all
the
Leviathans
of
note
.
But
there
are
a
rabble
of
uncertain
,
fugitive
,
half-fabulous
whales
,
which
,
as
an
American
whaleman
,
I
know
by
reputation
,
but
not
personally
.
I
shall
enumerate
them
by
their
fore-castle
appellations
;
for
possibly
such
a
list
may
be
valuable
to
future
investigators
,
who
may
complete
what
I
have
here
but
begun
.
If
any
of
the
following
whales
,
shall
hereafter
be
caught
and
marked
,
then
he
can
readily
be
incorporated
into
this
System
,
according
to
his
Folio
,
Octavo
,
or
Duodecimo
magnitude
:
--
The
Bottle-Nose
Whale
;
the
Junk
Whale
;
the
Pudding-Headed
Whale
;
the
Cape
Whale
;
the
Leading
Whale
;
the
Cannon
Whale
;
the
Scragg
Whale
;
the
Coppered
Whale
;
the
Elephant
Whale
;
the
Iceberg
Whale
;
the
Quog
Whale
;
the
Blue
Whale
;
etc.
.
From
Icelandic
,
Dutch
,
and
old
English
authorities
,
there
might
be
quoted
other
lists
of
uncertain
whales
,
blessed
with
all
manner
of
uncouth
names
.
