372 NIMftOD OF THE SEA; OR, 



tongue and. lips exhibits the 'fatty matter penetrated by 

 coarse-fibred muscular flesh, and is known as " plum-pud- 

 ding." 



Fig. 3 shows the same, with the lower jaw depressed, and 

 the lips thrown apart, as in the act of feeding. 



The right whale is the opposite of the sperm - whale in 

 many important features. 



The sperm-whale is an habitue of the deep water, seldom 

 found on soundings, and feeding on creatures of great size 

 in the profoundest depths of the ocean. The right whale 

 frequents the bays and shoal waters of the coasts ; it feeds 

 on minute shrimps and mollusks, which float upon the sur- 

 face of the sea or at moderate depths. 



In the sperm-whale the male is much larger than the fe- 

 male. In the right whale the female attains the greatest 

 bulk. 



In the sperm-whale the upper jaw,. case, and junk form 

 the great portion of the head, the under jaw being furnish- 

 ed with ivory teeth. In the right whale, the lower jaw, with 

 its great lips and tongue, is greatly disproportioned to the 

 slender upper jaw, which is furnished with the elastic slabs 

 of whalebone*. 



In the sperm-whale the great respiratory canal is elon- 

 gated, and terminates in a single spout-hole a little to one 

 side, on the extreme end of the head. In the right whale 

 this canal branches into two channels, which terminates in 

 two spout-holes about eighteen feet back from the nose. 



The head of the sperm-whale is impenetrable to the har- 

 poon, and insensible to hurts. In the right whale the great 

 lips and throat offer fair target and good holding to the 

 whaleman's irons, while the extreme tip of its upper jaw is 

 so sensitive that a prick of the lance or harpoon upon this 

 spot will instantly arrest and deflect the motion of the whale. 

 Of this I will speak more fully when we meet him in the boat. 



