BOOK III (Duodecimo), CHAPTER III (Mealymouthed Porpoise).

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."