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(_Grampus_).—Though this fish, whose\r\nloud sonorous breathing, or rather blowing, has furnished a proverb to\r\nlandsmen, is so well known a denizen of the deep, yet is he not\r\npopularly classed among whales. But possessing all the grand\r\ndistinctive features of the leviathan, most naturalists have recognised\r\nhim for one. He is of moderate octavo size, varying from fifteen to\r\ntwenty-five feet in length, and of corresponding dimensions round the\r\nwaist. He swims in herds; he is never regularly hunted, though his oil\r\nis considerable in quantity, and pretty good for light. By some\r\nfishermen his approach is regarded as premonitory of the advance of the\r\ngreat sperm whale.\r\n\r\nBOOK II. (_Octavo_), CHAPTER II. (_Black Fish_).—I give the popular\r\nfishermen’s names for all these fish, for generally they are the best.\r\nWhere any name happens to be vague or inexpressive, I shall say so, and\r\nsuggest another. I do so now, touching the Black Fish, so-called,\r\nbecause blackness is the rule among almost all whales. So, call him the\r\nHyena Whale, if you please. His voracity is well known, and from the\r\ncircumstance that the inner angles of his lips are curved upwards, he\r\ncarries an everlasting Mephistophelean grin on his face. This whale\r\naverages some sixteen or eighteen feet in length. He is found in almost\r\nall latitudes. He has a peculiar way of showing his dorsal hooked fin\r\nin swimming, which looks something like a Roman nose. When not more\r\nprofitably employed, the sperm whale hunters sometimes capture the\r\nHyena whale, to keep up the supply of cheap oil for domestic\r\nemployment—as some frugal housekeepers, in the absence of company, and\r\nquite alone by themselves, burn unsavory tallow instead of odorous wax.\r\nThough their blubber is very thin, some of these whales will yield you\r\nupwards of thirty gallons of oil.\r\n\r\nBOOK II. (_Octavo_), CHAPTER III. (_Narwhale_), that is, _Nostril\r\nwhale_.—Another instance of a curiously named whale, so named I suppose\r\nfrom his peculiar horn being originally mistaken for a peaked nose. The\r\ncreature is some sixteen feet in length, while its horn averages five\r\nfeet, though some exceed ten, and even attain to fifteen feet. Strictly\r\nspeaking, this horn is but a lengthened tusk, growing out from the jaw\r\nin a line a little depressed from the horizontal. But it is only found\r\non the sinister side, which has an ill effect, giving its owner\r\nsomething analogous to the aspect of a clumsy left-handed man. What\r\nprecise purpose this ivory horn or lance answers, it would be hard to\r\nsay. It does not seem to be used like the blade of the sword-fish and\r\nbill-fish; though some sailors tell me that the Narwhale employs it for\r\na rake in turning over the bottom of the sea for food. Charley Coffin\r\nsaid it was used for an ice-piercer; for the Narwhale, rising to the\r\nsurface of the Polar Sea, and finding it sheeted with ice, thrusts his\r\nhorn up, and so breaks through. But you cannot prove either of these\r\nsurmises to be correct. My own opinion is, that however this one-sided\r\nhorn may really be used by the Narwhale—however that may be—it would\r\ncertainly be very convenient to him for a folder in reading pamphlets.\r\nThe Narwhale I have heard called the Tusked whale, the Horned whale,\r\nand the Unicorn whale. He is certainly a curious example of the\r\nUnicornism to be found in almost every kingdom of animated nature. From\r\ncertain cloistered old authors I have gathered that this same\r\nsea-unicorn’s horn was in ancient days regarded as the great antidote\r\nagainst poison, and as such, preparations of it brought immense prices.\r\nIt was also distilled to a volatile salts for fainting ladies, the same\r\nway that the horns of the male deer are manufactured into hartshorn.\r\nOriginally it was in itself accounted an object of great curiosity.\r\nBlack Letter tells me that Sir Martin Frobisher on his return from that\r\nvoyage, when Queen Bess did gallantly wave her jewelled hand to him\r\nfrom a window of Greenwich Palace, as his bold ship sailed down the\r\nThames; “when Sir Martin returned from that voyage,” saith Black\r\nLetter, “on bended knees he presented to her highness a prodigious long\r\nhorn of the Narwhale, which for a long period after hung in the castle\r\nat Windsor.” An Irish author avers that the Earl of Leicester, on\r\nbended knees, did likewise present to her highness another horn,\r\npertaining to a land beast of the unicorn nature.\r\n\r\nThe Narwhale has a very picturesque, leopard-like look, being of a\r\nmilk-white ground colour, dotted with round and oblong spots of black.\r\nHis oil is very superior, clear and fine; but there is little of it,\r\nand he is seldom hunted. He is mostly found in the circumpolar seas.\r\n\r\nBOOK II. (_Octavo_), CHAPTER IV. (_Killer_).—Of this whale little is\r\nprecisely known to the Nantucketer, and nothing at all to the professed\r\nnaturalist. From what I have seen of him at a distance, I should say\r\nthat he was about the bigness of a grampus. He is very savage—a sort of\r\nFeegee fish. He sometimes takes the great Folio whales by the lip, and\r\nhangs there like a leech, till the mighty brute is worried to death.\r\nThe Killer is never hunted. I never heard what sort of oil he has.\r\nException might be taken to the name bestowed upon this whale, on the\r\nground of its indistinctness. For we are all killers, on land and on\r\nsea; Bonapartes and Sharks included.\r\n\r\nBOOK II. (_Octavo_), CHAPTER V. (_Thrasher_).—This gentleman is famous\r\nfor his tail, which he uses for a ferule in thrashing his foes. He\r\nmounts the Folio whale’s back, and as he swims, he works his passage by\r\nflogging him; as some schoolmasters get along in the world by a similar\r\nprocess. Still less is known of the Thrasher than of the Killer. Both\r\nare outlaws, even in the lawless seas.\r\n\r\n Thus ends BOOK II. (_Octavo_), and begins BOOK III. (_Duodecimo_).\r\n\r\nDUODECIMOES.—These include the smaller whales. I. The Huzza Porpoise.\r\nII. The Algerine Porpoise. III. The Mealy-mouthed Porpoise.\r\n\r\nTo those who have not chanced specially to study the subject, it may\r\npossibly seem strange, that fishes not commonly exceeding four or five\r\nfeet should be marshalled among WHALES—a word, which, in the popular\r\nsense, always conveys an idea of hugeness. But the creatures set down\r\nabove as Duodecimoes are infallibly whales, by the terms of my\r\ndefinition of what a whale is—_i.e._ a spouting fish, with a horizontal\r\ntail.\r\n\r\nBOOK III. (_Duodecimo_), CHAPTER 1. (_Huzza Porpoise_).—This is the\r\ncommon porpoise found almost all over the globe. The name is of my own\r\nbestowal; for there are more than one sort of porpoises, and something\r\nmust be done to distinguish them. I call him thus, because he always\r\nswims in hilarious shoals, which upon the broad sea keep tossing\r\nthemselves to heaven like caps in a Fourth-of-July crowd. Their\r\nappearance is generally hailed with delight by the mariner. Full of\r\nfine spirits, they invariably come from the breezy billows to windward.\r\nThey are the lads that always live before the wind. They are accounted\r\na lucky omen. If you yourself can withstand three cheers at beholding\r\nthese vivacious fish, then heaven help ye; the spirit of godly\r\ngamesomeness is not in ye. A well-fed, plump Huzza Porpoise will yield\r\nyou one good gallon of good oil. But the fine and delicate fluid\r\nextracted from his jaws is exceedingly valuable. It is in request among\r\njewellers and watchmakers. 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