The Perilousness of the Sperm Whale Fishery

There have been several memorable historical instances where a particular whale in the ocean has been at distant times and places, popularly cognizable. In plain prose, here are four whales as well known to the students of cetacean as marius or sylla to the classical scholar. But not only did each of these famous whales enjoy great individual celebrity, nay, you may call it an ocean wide renown, but he was admitted into all the rights, privileges and distinctions of a name. Was it not so o? New zealand jack thou, terror of all cruisers that crossd their wakes in the vicinity of the tattoo land? Or timor tom thy famed leviathan,