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removed them one by one with six oxen and two horses, and 
made £10 by their blubber.” In this instance the animals most 
probably belonged to the next species, the Ca’ing or Howling 
Whale, which is frequently driven on shore in large herds, and 
makes a great noise when attacked. 
Sir Cuthbert Sharp includes the Grampus in his list of Hart- 
lepool Cetaceans. 
This animal is the most voracious and destructive of all the 
Cetacea, whence its English name of “ Killer.” 
M. Van Beneden, in an address to the Belgian Academy on 
the Whales of the Antwerp Crag, and the recent Cetacea of the 
Belgian coast, gives the following extraordinary account of its 
habits :— 
“The Ork is by far the most formidable of all the great 
marine animals; the colossal whale, even, is not exempt from his 
formidable attacks; it is truly the consternation of all. Nothing 
is more curious than to listen to the tales of the fishermen of 
Greenland and Spitzbergen of the habits of these marine mon- 
sters. What violence in the struggle, what tenacity in the 
attack ! One would think one was listening to the recitals of 
travellers in the deserts of Africa narrating the gigantic strug- 
gles of the great mammifers, the terrible assaults made by the 
lions and tigers on the elephants, the buffaloes, or the antelopes. 
The Ist of August of this year (1861), a fine male lost itself on 
the coast of Jutland. Intelligence was sent immediately to 
Copenhagen, and Professor Eschricht made his way to the place. 
He wished to know, above all, on what this animal had fed 
during its last hours; and he soon discovered that, not without 
reason, the Ork is the terror of the seas. Its stomach contained 
(one would scarcely have believed it possible) thirteen porpoises 
and fifteen seals! My learned friend searched with a feeling of 
horror whether, amongst this frightful mass of victims, he could 
not find the remains of a sailor.” 
During the recent dredging expedition off the Northumberland 
coast, when at work about twenty miles east of Berwick, we 
witnessed with much interest the gambols of many of this species, 
some of them o! large size, which approached within a few yards 
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