SUN-FISH. Ill 



scull with one on his belly, or on one rim of 

 the ellipse, the other on his back, or the other 

 rim of the ellipse and a sort of steering oar in 

 the middle of one of the sides. He moves edge- 

 wise through the water. He is covered to the 

 depth of three or four inches on both sides with 

 a white elastic case, like the meat of a cocoa- 

 nut, and very much resembling the sturgeon's 

 nose that boys put into balls to make them 

 bounce well. 



Under this case lies some excellent white 

 meat, which was dug out, and supplied all hands 

 fore and aft, with several excellent meals, re- 

 lishing as nobody can tell how who has not 

 been as long at sea as we had been, without 

 anything fresh. The liver of the sun-fish con- 

 tains a large quantity of yellow oil, which is 

 thought to be excellent as an external unguent 

 or embrocation for the rheumatism. 



The next morning our captain made fast to 

 another much larger right whale than our for- 

 mer capture, turned him up dead about half past 

 ten, after a hard fight, but in less than twenty 

 minutes thu huge carcass sunk bodily, with all 



