The Crown and the Southern Fissures of the Right Whale

The right whale has a huge sulk and pout, about 20 feet long and five feet deep. The edges of these bones are fringed with hairy fibres through which the right whale strains the water. One voyager in purchase calls them the wondrous whiskers inside of the whale's mouth. Another hogs bristles. A third old gentleman in haklut uses the following elegant language: "I should take this to be inside of an indian wigwam"