WHALE STRANDED. 



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the carcase. The peasants tell many stories 

 about the king of the urubus, who has a tuft of 

 red feathers upon his head, but I never heard 

 any coherent account of this sovereign. 



The stench proceeding from the whale be- 

 came in a few days so intolerable as to render a 

 removal necessary, and therefore I applied to 

 an old Creole black, a carpenter, to allow me to 

 reside in his cottage, which was neat and clean. 

 To this he agreed ; w T hilst he went to live with 

 some of his friends. 



