62 THE WHALEMAN S ADVENTURES. 



CHAPTEE V. 



THE WHALE'S PHYSIOLOGY AND NATURAL 

 HISTORY. 



" Spout ! spout ! spout ! 

 The waves are purling all about, 

 Every billow on its head 

 Strangely wears a crest of red. 

 See her lash the foaming main 

 In her flurry and her pain. 



Take good heed, my hearts of oak, 

 Lest her flukes, as she lies, 

 Swiftly hurl you to the skies. 



But lo ! her giant strength is broke. 

 Slow she turns, as a mass of lead ; 

 The mighty mountain whale is dead." 



The Whale's Physiology Natural History Trying-out 

 Discovery of a Whale The Chase The Capture Towing 

 a dead Whale. 



THEEE are some points in the whale's 

 physiology, and in the way of disposing of 

 the blubber, not noted in previous chapters, 

 which are so well described in parts of " a 

 sailor's yarn" that I have found in a loose num- 

 ber of the Sailor's Magazine, that I will take 

 from it, here and there, with corrections, what 



