The End of the Sperm Whale

40 men in one ship hunting sperm whales for forty eight months, think they have done extremely well. Yet the far different nature of the whale hunt peremptorily forbids so inglorious an end to the leviathan. Those whales, influenced by some views to safety, now swim the seas in immense caravans. And equally seems the conceit that because the so called whalebone whales no longer haunt many grounds in former years abounding with them, hence that species also is declining. For they are only being driven from peremPTory to cape.