Now, as she scudded through the dark waters of Behring Sea, Dave, standing in the conning-tower, thought how much she must resemble a whale.

Now, in peace times, in this feeding ground of the greatest of all prey, the tables might be turned, the submarine taken for whale.

"Can you understand their jargon?" "They say," said the Eskimo, showing his white teeth in a grin, "that they know we are spiritsspirits of dead whales, since we come out of a whale's back, that came up from under the sea.

" The Doctor, who understood this to be one of the superstitions of the natives, and knew that they had taken the submarine for a whale, began to laugh.

Several hundred miles west of any point reached by white whalers and traders, marooned with two hundred superstitious natives, who to-day worshipped them, but to-morrow, upon discovering the disappearance of the "spirit-whale," might turn upon them, they would be obliged to make use of every resource and every strategy to save their lives, should the submarine fail to return.

"Thought we'd been shot by natives with a whale-gun.

Took us for a whale, don't you see?

Whale-gun throws a bomb that explodes inside the whale and kills him.

Whale-gun throws a bomb that explodes inside the whale and kills him.

Now, shadowy objects shot past them, and Dave uttered a prayer that they might not mix with the propellerseal, walrus or white whale, whatever they might be.

Soon they would be lying motionless beneath the Arctic floe, as helpless as a dead whale; and should no dark water-hole appear before that time came, they were doomed.

Can't be a whale up here, can it?" "Impossible!

Enough to have a whale of a good time on, or buy a farm.

After three days sail, he was as far north as the whale-hunters ever go; and then proceeded in his course due north for other three days, when he found the land, instead of stretching due north, as hitherto, to trend from thence towards the east.

This species of the whale is much smaller than the other kind, being seldom more than seven ells in length; while the other species is often forty-eight ells long, and sometimes even fifty.

In this country was the best whale-fishing that Ohthere had ever seen, the whales being so numerous, that he was one of six who killed threescore in three days[10].

Every one pays in proportion to his substance: the wealthiest paying the skins of fifteen martins, five rein-deer skins, and one bear-skin, a coat or cloak made of bear-skin or otters skins, and two cables or ship ropes of sixty ells long each, one of which is made of whale hide, and the other from the skins of seals.

Forst In former translations of Alfred, this passage is rendered as follows: "He was within three days sail of being as far north as the whale-hunters ever go."

The morse is here named horse-whale by king Alfred, with infinitely greater propriety than the appellation of sea-horse, which long prevailed in our language.

[10] It would appear, from the vast number killed, that this successful fishing must refer to the morse or horse-whale, not to the ordinary large whale.

[10] It would appear, from the vast number killed, that this successful fishing must refer to the morse or horse-whale, not to the ordinary large whale.

The whale seems to be an exception to the above, as he receives water and spouts it out again from an organ, which I suppose to be a respiratory one.

[Fr.], cue. pretense &c (untruth) 546; put off, dust thrown in the eyes; blind; moonshine; mere pretext, shallow pretext; lame excuse, lame apology; tub to a whale; false plea, sour grapes; makeshift, shift, white lie; special pleading &c (sophistry) 477; soft sawder &c (flattery)

But in point of fact Grampus knew nothing of the book until his friend Lord Narwhal sent him an American newspaper containing a spirited article by the well-known Professor Sperm N. Whale which was rather equivocal in its bearing, the passages quoted from Merman being of rather a telling sort, and the paragraphs which seemed to blow defiance being unaccountably feeble, coming from so distinguished a Cetacean.

He had acknowledged his mistakes, but had restated his theory so as to show that it was left intact in spite of them; and he had even found cases in which Ziphius, Microps, Scrag Whale the explorer, and other Cetaceans of unanswerable authority, were decidedly at issue with Grampus.