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beach, he inflicted with the large knife some deep wounds, from which 
the blood ran copiously ; but the animal, notwithstanding this great 
loss of blood, still lived for fourteen hours. The fisherman also put 
a large stick several times into its mouth, which, to use his own 
words, made the whale “ bellow like a bull.” 
A very interesting fact may be deduced from the observations of 
Mrs. Walker, who accompanied her husband on the second trip. She 
told her husband that each time he put the stick into the whale’s 
mouth, she could see several large teeth in front of its lower jaw, 
which, however, were not dboarrol by any body else, and the exist- 
ence of which was only revealed when the skull was cleaned, when, 
in front of the lower 1 jaw, two large triangular and moveable teeth 
on each side became exposed. It thus seems that the Ziphioid Whales, 
when defending themselves from their enemies, or attacking their 
prey, have the power to protrude these four teeth at will. Such an 
hypothesis gains still more in probability when we consider the nature 
of the principal food of the animal, which, judging from the contents 
of its stomach, seems to consist dimos exclusively of the common 
possession of such an agile animal as the Octopus, had not nature 
furnished the former with the means of taking good hold of it. It 
is rtig that the allied genera Ziphius and Hyperoodon, of the 
northern hemisphere, feed also on similar species of cuttlefish, as i 
t havoc 
amongst the smaller inhabitants of the sea.  And,as Dr. Gray justly 
observes, it proves, at the same time, that these cephalopods, although 
apparently of rare occurrence, must in many localities be very nume- 
Tous, as it would otherwise be im mpossible to understand how they 
could furnish those huge whales with sufficient food. 
hen I proceeded to the beach the animal was still lying in the 
surf, partly covered with sand, but still intact. I measured its length 
exactly, and found it to be 30 feet 6 ir from the tip of the nose 
to the end of the lobes of the tail. The co. olour of the whole animal 
of the belly, which had a greyish colour. The tail was 6 feet 6 inches 
. The dorsal fin was unfortunately destroyed when I first in- 
spected the whale, so that I cannot describe its form and position 
from my own observ ations; but Mr. Walker told me that it was 
small, had the usual falcate form, and was situated not far from the tail. 
I may here observe that, from the form of the skull and some other 
