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but with his skin bleached to a deadly 

 whiteness that remained throughout his 

 life. For fourteen days afterwards this 

 man was a jibbering maniac, after which 

 period he regained the normal. This 

 remarkable story which was accepted by 

 the special committee presided over by 

 Sir Francis Fox has, however, been 

 described as " moonshine " by the captain 

 of Star of the East, and therefore very 

 much reliance cannot be placed on its 

 veracity. 



Sir John Bland-Sutton has given an 

 account of a man being taken into the 

 mouth of a whale very many years ago. 

 In this instance, a U.S.A. vessel $ent out 

 a small boat to chase a cachalot. The 

 boat was bitten in two, as frequently 

 occurred in the days before the gun har- 

 poon was invented, and one Marshall 

 Jenkins, of the crew, went down with the 

 whale, as the beast sank in its death 

 agonies. It came up for the last breather 



