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BOOK III (Duodecimo), CHAPTER II (Algerine Porpoise).
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BOOK III (Duodecimo), CHAPTER II (Algerine Porpoise).
BOOK II (Octavo), CHAPTER V (Thrasher).
BOOK II (Octavo), CHAPTER III (Narwhale).
BOOK I (Folio), CHAPTER VI (Sulphur Bottom).
BOOK I (Folio), CHAPTER IV (Hump Back).
"The Fin-Back is not gregarious. He seems a whale-hater, as some men are man-haters. Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters…."
BOOK I (Folio), CHAPTER II (Right Whale).
BOOK I (Folio), CHAPTER I (Sperm Whale).
"To be short, then, a whale is a spouting fish with a horizontal tail. There you have him."
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