The Spout of the Sperm Whale

Even when tranquilly swimming through the midday sea in a calm with his elevated hump sun dried as a dromedaryes in the desert, even then, the whale always carries a small basin of water on his head. You cannot go with your pitcher to this fountain and fill it and bring it away. Nor is it at all prudent for the hunter to be over curious touching the precise nature of the whale spout. It will not do for him to be peering into it and putting his face in it. Another thing iav it said, and i do not much doubt it, that if the jet is fairly spouted into your eyes, it will blind you. The w