156 WHALING AND F I S H I N 



CHAPTER IX. 



No WHALES Tediousness of the Life Expedients tc L. . Tim* 

 The Habits of Sperm Whales Their Food The Sperm 

 Whale Squid Its Arms The Whale's Teeth, and how it is 

 supposed that he uses them Means of Defense possessed by 

 Whales The right Whale The Humpback Quickness of 

 Motion of a Sperm Whale Lowering in a Calm Difficulty of 

 approaching a Whale at such a Time He Listens Sudden 

 disappearance Chasing a Gallied Whale Rainy Weather 

 Bourbon Determination to leave the Vessel at the first Op- 

 portunity The Coast of Madagascar A Story of St. Mary's 

 Shoal. 



IN four days we completed our supply of fuel, 

 and on the morning of the fifth after our arrival, 

 once more set sail for the middle of the channel. 

 Our last whale made us forty barrels ; we had, 

 therefore, one hundred barrels of oil on board, 

 which at so early a period of our voyage (we were 

 not seven months out), was considered highly 

 encouraging. Yet the time was beginning to 

 hang very heavily upon our hands, and our expe- 

 rience for a month and a half after leaving the 

 Bazarootas during which time we never saw a 

 sperm whale spout entirely disgusted me with 

 the business. 



The captain proposed to go into port for refre*h> 



