WHALE. | NATURAL HISTORY. 341 
scape without peril,—for he throweth so much water out of 
his mouth upon the ship, that he overturneth it sometime or- 
drowneth it. And also he is so huge in quantity that when 
he is taken, all the country is the better for the taking. 
Also he loveth his whelps with a wonder love, and leadeth 
them about in the sea long time. And if it happeth that his 
whelps be let with heaps of gravel and by default of water, he 
taketh much water in his mouth, and ‘throweth upon them, 
and delivereth them in that wise out of peril. And he setteth 
them alway between himself and the sun on the more sicher 
[safe] side. And when strong tempest ariseth, while his 
whelps be tender and young, he swalloweth them up into 
his own womb; and when the tempest is gone and fair 
weather come, then he casteth them up whole and sound. 
Also against the Whale fighteth a fish of serpent’s kind, 
and is venomous, as a crocodile ; and then other fish come 
to the Whale’s tail, and if the Whale be overcome, the 
other fish die. And if the venomous fish may not over- 
come the Whale, then he throweth out of his jaws into the 
water a fumous smell most stinking; and the Whale 
