The Body of the Sperm Whale

I have described to you how the blubber wraps the body of the whale as the rind wraps an orange. But woult this difference about the head. This envelope, though not so thick, is of a boneless toughness inestimable. Any man who has not handled it, the severest pointed harpoon, the sharpest lance darted by the strongest human arm impotently rebounds from it. It is as though the forehead of the sperm whale were paved with horses hoofs. I do not think that any sensation lurks in it. Now mark unerringly impelling this dead, impregnable, uninjurable wall, and this