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their clothes of the other teeth. Their mouth is very broad 

 before, like a bullocks, whereon grow above and underneath 

 several bristles that are hollow within, and of the bigness of 

 a straw : of these bristles the seamen make rings, which they 

 wear on their fingers for the cramp. Above the uppermost 

 beard they have two semicircular nostrils, whereout he blows 

 the water, like the whale, yet with a less noise. Their eyes 

 are at a good distance from the nose ; they have eyelids as 

 other fourfooted beasts have ; his eyes are naturally as red as 

 blood when he doth not turn them, and I could see no differ- 

 ence when they were moved ; for they always turn'd their 

 eyes when they did look upon me, and then they look much 

 uglier, though they are never handsom. Their ears are some- 

 what higher than the eyes, but very near to them, which are 

 like those of the seales. Their tongue is at least as big as a 

 neat's ; when it is but newly boiled it may be eaten, but if it 

 is laid by for two or three days, it becomes rank like train- 

 oyl. Their neck is very thick, wherefore he does not readily 

 turn his head about, and this is the reason why he turneth 

 his eyes generally. Their tails are short, like those of the 

 scale. 



From their flesh we cut no fat, it is all mixed together like 

 unto hogs-flesh, to which it is the likest : their heart and 

 liver we did eat ; they taste well enough, chiefly where we 

 have no great variety of dishes. Their yards are of a hard 

 bone, about two foot long, thick at the bottom, and less be- 

 fore, somewhat bent in the middle ; at the side towards their 

 belly it is flat, but it is round without, and it is every where 

 covered over with sinews. They turn also knife-hafts and 

 other things out of this bone. What their food is I cannot 

 certainly tell, they may perhaps eat both herbs srndfsh; that 

 they eat herbs I conclude from hence, that their dung looks 

 like horse-dung : that they ent fish I judge, because when 

 we cut the fat off a whale one of them did often take the skin 

 Avith him under water ; he did also fling it up and catch it 



