The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 114
sands of men bravethe dangers of the seas, of the arctic ice, and ofthe chase, killing the whales by hurling harpoonsand shooting explosive bullets into them from asmall boat. Among the various kinds of whalebone-whalesis the right whale, which reaches a length ofsixty feet and yields two hundred… … A HARPOONED WHALE TOWING A BOAT-LOAD OF WHALERSTHROUGH THE WATER AT A RAPID RATE. vessels being attacked by sperm-whales withoutprovocation, and probably some vessels whichhave disappeared at sea were wrecked by theseleviathans. In 1820 the American ship Essexwas rammed twice by a sperm-whale, and…
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