His CAPTORS. 157 



Jaw. Junk. Case. White Horse. 



ogist and the favored artist should not alike be- 

 come masters, under circumstances so impos- 

 ing, it would be nobody's fault but their own. 



But to finish the disposal of our present prize : 

 the lower jaw, with the teeth all in it, was first 

 separated by the sharp spades, in the hands of 

 the officers, from the head, and hoisted in upon 

 deck ; then the upper jaw was separated from 

 the mass of crown, forehead, and brains; then 

 what whalers call the junk, or the mighty mass 

 of blubber, separated from the case, which is the 

 name they give to the brain-pan, ivhite horse, 

 integuments, and flesh of the head. The junk 

 was hoisted in on deck, weighing I will not say 

 how many thousand pounds. The former cap- 

 tain of this ship on another voyage found a 

 large barnacle in the center of a sperm whale's 

 junk, that must have got there in the same 

 way that stones, and deers' horns, and toads 

 get into the solid heart of trees, by being lodged 

 in the bark and then overgrown by it. 



When old Captain Bunker, of New Bedford, 

 of whom almost every body has heard, was on 

 a cruise in the ship Howard, in north latitude 

 thirty degrees thirty minutes, and east longi- 

 tude one hundred and fifty-four degrees, he 



