cachalot

1 Almost at the same moment it began; and there was I, who, with fearful admiration had so often watched the titanic convulsions of a dying cachalot, actually involved in them.

2 The sperm whale, or cachalot, has teeth in its lower jaw, and no whalebone whatever.

3 At any rate, we had not entered the straits, but were cruising between Car Nicobar and Junkseylon, when we "met up" with a full-grown cachalot, as ugly a customer as one could wish.

4 No one could better describe the macrocephalous cachalot, which is sometimes more than seventy-five feet long.

5 At length the mass of cachalots broke up, the waves became quiet, and I felt that we were rising to the surface.

6 For one hour this wholesale massacre continued, from which the cachalots could not escape.

7 The battle between the cachalots and the whales had already begun when the Nautilus arrived.

8 Whoever gave utterance to those sounds—words they were—must be moving onward,—coming towards the carcass of the cachalot.

9 Almost at the same moment it began; and there was I, who with fearful admiration had so often watched the titanic convulsions of a dying cachalot, actually involved in them.

10 The creature had not quite escaped from the cachalot's teeth.

11 The sperm or cachalot whale is a dangerous and bold fighter and is perhaps the most interesting of all cetaceans.

12 At the point where he intended to take his stand,—close in by the “crutch” of the cachalot’s tail-fin,—he made three excavations with more care.

13 There hung Snowball in suspense,—holding on to the slippery skin of the cachalot, literally “with tooth and toe-nail.”

14 She is put about, making a course which shortly brings her a mile or two to windward of the slowly-moving cachalot.

15 But it may, perhaps, be significant that a cachalot was stranded off Sark on June 3.

16 The “case” of the cachalot contained enough to have roasted all the sharks within a circle of ten mile around it; and, to all appearance, there were hundreds of them inside that circumference.

17 In these objects there was no difficulty in recognising the wreck of the Pandora’s raft, which was drifting at no great distance from the place where they had been cutting up the cachalot.

18 Scores of sharks,—both of the blue and white species,—attended by their pilots and suckers, were swimming around the carcass of the cachalot.

19 Had it been the demon of the mist that gave utterance to these speeches, they could not have produced a more fearful effect upon those who heard them from the back of the cachalot.

20 The sperm whale, the cachalot, trusts to his jaw; he bites; and his enemy is not the men in the boat, but the boat itself.

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