106 THE WHALEMAN'S ADVENTURES. 



CHAPTEK VIII. 



ATLANTIC OCEAN MAMMOTHS AND MONSTERS. 



" In the free element beneath me swam, 

 Flounder'd, and dived, in play, in chase, in battle, 

 Fishes of every colour, form, and kind ; 

 Which language cannot paint, and mariner 

 Had never seen ; from dread leviathan 

 To insect millions peopling every wave : 

 Gather'd in shoals immense, like floating islands, 

 Led by mysterious instinct through that waste 

 And trackless region, though on every side 

 Assaulted by voracious enemies, 

 Whales, sharks, and monsters, arm'd in front or jaw, 

 With swords, saws, spiral horns, or hooked fangs." 



The World before the Flood. 



Cape Horn A shoal of Sperm "Whales Capture of a "Whale's 

 calf Dimensions of a "Whale's calf A Sun-fish Varieties 

 of fortune Sperm "Whale lost Concord of "Whales. 



False Banks, Atlantic Ocean, lat. 36 ., Ion. 46 W. 



AFTER doubling Cape Horn, Providence 

 was propitious, as to our enterprise, in the 

 offer of whales. We lowered off the notable 

 Cape itself, when in sight of the islands called 

 Diego Ramirez. Although so near to that 



