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distinguishes him from the whale. The head of the lohale 

 is not round at the top, but somewhat flat, and goeth down 

 sloaping, like unto the tyling of an house, to the under lip. 

 The under lip is broader than the ichale is in any part of his 

 body, and broadest in the middle ; before and behind it is 

 something narrower, according to the shape of the head. In 

 one word, all the whole fish is shaped like nnto a shoemakers 

 last, if you look upon it from beneath. Behind the knob or 

 bump where the finns are, between that and the finns, are 

 his eyes, which are not much bigger than those of a bullock, 

 with eyelids and hair, like men's eyes. The crystal of the 

 eye is not much bigger than a pea, clear, white, and trans- 

 parent as crystal ; the colour of some is yellowish, of others 

 quite white. The scale's are three times as big as those of 

 the whale. The eyes of the lohale are placed very low, al- 

 most at the end of the upper lip. Some bring along with 

 them from Spitzbergen some bones, which they pretend to be 

 the ears of the whale ; but I can say nothing to this, because 

 I never saw any ; but thus much I do remember, that I have 

 heard them say that they lye very deep. The lohale doth 

 not hear when he spouts the water, wherefore he is easiest 

 to be struck at that time. His belly and back are quite red, 

 and underneath the belly they are commonly white, yet some 

 of them are coal black ; most of them that I saw were white. 

 They look very beautiful when the sun shines upon them, 

 the small clear waves of the sea that are over him glisten 

 like silver. Some of them are marbled on their back and 

 tail. "Where he hath been wounded there remaineth always 

 a white scar. I understood one of our harpooniers that he 

 once caught a ivhale at Spitzbergen that was white all over. 

 Half white I have seen some, but one above the rest, which 

 was a female, was a beautiful one : she was all over marbled 

 black and yellow. Those that are black are not all of the 

 same colour, for some of them are as black as velvet, others 

 of a coal black, others of the colour of a tench. AVhen they 



