368 FOLLOW THE WHALE 



would actually measure four hundred miles from side to side if it 

 were put down on the surface of that ocean. We don't know much 

 about our earth, for all our delvings and diggings, and comings and 

 goings. We know still less of what we don't know, despite all our 

 theories and hypotheses and our erudite writings and pompous pro- 

 nouncements. 



After at least ten thousand years in pursuit of the whale, we still 

 know very little about him, and we don't really understand those of 

 our own kind who have followed him. 



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