104 WHALE AND ITS MATE. 
danger Impending. The story ends with poe- 
tical justice ; for the tide, at length, came in, 
and enabled both to escape from their ene- 
mies, though not without receiving wounds 
so long as they were within reach. In ano- 
ther example, some fishers having struck 
one of two Whales, a male and female, 
which were in company, the wounded fish 
offered a long and _ powerful resistance 
to its destroyers, in the course of which 
it struck down a boat, containing three 
men, with a single blow of its tail. The 
other Whale remained with its companion, 
lending all the assistance in its power; till, 
at length, the one which was struck died 
under the number of its wounds, while its 
faithful associate, incapable of forsaking it, 
stretched itself, with the most mournful bel- 
lowing, upon the dead Whale, and patiently 
endured the blows that took away its own 
existence. 
‘* The female Whale carries her young 
with her wherever she goes, and when 
hardest pursued, keeps it supported between 
her fins ;, even when wounded, she still clasps 
her young one; and, when she plunges, to 
