132 THE WHALEMAN'S ADVENTURES. 

 CHAPTEE X. 



CONQUEST AND DISPOSAL OF A SPERM WHALE. 



" Ye gentlemen of England, that live at home at ease, 

 Ah, little do you think upon the dangers of the seas !" 



Ocean Song. 



" I love thee when I see thee stand, 



The Hope of every other land : 



A sea-mark in the tide of Time, 



Rearing to heaven thy brows sublime. 



I love thee when I contemplate 



The full-orb'd grandeur of thy state ; 



Thy laws and liberties, that rise, 



Man's noblest works beneath the skies ; 



To which the Pyramids are tame, 



And Grecian temples bow their fame." 



Montgomery. 



Large Spermaceti captured Description of Sperm Whale 

 Cutting-in Spermaceti Sharks Tenacity of life of 

 Sharks Sperm Candle manufactories New England 

 enterprise Hopeful future. 



Brazil Banks, Atlantic Ocean, off the Eio de la Plata. 



IN this region of fishing enterprize, we cap- 

 tured a large whale, a genuine makrocepha- 

 lus, which I found by measurement to be sixty 

 feet long and thirty feet round.. His lower jaw- 

 bone was sixteen feet long, and it had forty-eight 



