The Great Sperm Whale

There are plenty of whalemen, especially among those whaling nations not sailing under the american flag, who have never hostilely encountered the sperm whale. Not even at the present day has the original prestige of the sperm whale died out of the minds of the whalemen as a body. We find some book naturalists, ollison and polveson declaring the sperm whale not only to be a consternation to every other creature in the sea, but also to be so incredibly ferocious as continually to be athirst for human blood. The secrets of the currents in the seas have never yet been divulged, even to the most erudite research. To chase and point