His CAPTORS. 133 



Losing a Right Whale. Taking and Saving a Sperm. 



that relish nobody can tell how that has not 

 been as long at sea without any thing fresh. 

 The liver of this sun-fish contains a large quan- 

 tity of yellow oil, which is thought to be excel- 

 lent as an external unguent or embrocation for 

 the rheumatism. 



The next morning our captain made fast to 

 another much larger right whale, turned him 

 up dead about half past ten, after a hard fight, 

 and in less than twenty minutes the huge car- 

 cass sunk bodily, with all the irons in it a 

 dead loss of more than a thousand dollars, 

 which could easily have been prevented, had 

 there been buoys or floats to have bent on to 

 harpoons, and darted into him as soon as dead. 



A few days after this mortifying event, we 

 had much better success in the capture of a 

 large bull whale, of the sperm kind, worth to 

 the ship at least twenty-five hundred dollars. 

 The captain's boat was also fast to another, 

 that ran off very swiftly upon being struck, 

 along with the rest of the school, making the 

 deep to boil like a pot, and terrifying all his 

 comrades by the extravagant and mad antics 

 which the prickings of those cruel irons natu- 

 rally goaded him to. They would have been 



