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whale hatli no otlier finns but tliese two wherewith he steers 

 himself, as a boat is rowed with two oars. 



Their tail doth not stand up as the tails of almost any 

 other fish, but it doth lye horizontal, as that of the Jirm-Jisli , 

 hutshopf, dolphin, and the like, and it is three, three and a 

 half, and four fathoms broad. The head is the third part of 

 the fish, and some have bigger heads ; on the upper and 

 under lip are short hairs before. Their lips are quite plain, 

 somewhat bended like an S, and they end underneath the 

 eyes before the two fins. Above the uppermost bended 

 lip he hath black streaks, some are darkish brown, and they 

 are crooked as the lips are. Their lips are smooth, and 

 quite black, round like the quarter of a circle ; when they 

 draw them together they lock into one another. "Within, on 

 the uppermost lip is the whale-bone, of a brown, black, and 

 yellow colour, with streaks of several colours, as the bones 

 of ?ifnn-Jish. The whale bones of some of the whales are 

 blew, and light blew, which two are reckoned to come 

 from young whales. In the other cutt, where the mouth is 

 shut up, you do not see the whalebone. Just before, on the 

 under lip, is a cavity or hole, which the upper lip fits exactly 

 into, as a knife into a sheath. I do really believe, that he 

 draws the water that he bloweth out through this hole, and 

 so I have been informed also by seamen. Within his mouth 

 is the whalebone, all hairy as horse's hair, as it is also in the 

 finn-jish, and it hangs down from both sides all about his 

 tongue. The whalebone of some whales is bended like unto 

 a cimeter, and others like unto a half-moon. 



The smallest whalebone is before, in his mouth, and be- 

 hind, towards his throat, and the middlemost is the greatest 

 and longest ; it is sometimes about two or three men's 

 lengths, from whence you may easily conjecture hoAv large 

 this fish must be. On one side, all in a row, there is two 

 hundred atid fifty pieces of whalebone, and as many also on 

 the otlier side, which maketh five hundred in all ; and there 



