m8 travels, to discover- 



raid, " The marks fcek fornething more fubflantial'tlfan 

 ghofts." " If I am not miftaken, Rais,faid I, this ghoftfceks 

 fomething more fubilantial.to,©, and you ihall fee the end 

 of it." 



I struck the largeft mark about a foot from the head 

 with filch force, that the whole iron was buried in his bo- 

 dy. He muddered, as a perfon does when cold, and lliook. 

 the ihaft of the harpoon out' of the focket,. the weapon 

 being made fo on purpofe ; the fhaft fell acrofs, kept fixt to 

 the line, and ferved as a float to briiig him up when he di- 

 ved, and impeded him when lie fwam. No, falmon fiflier 

 ever faw finer fport with a nfh and a rod. He had thirty 

 fathom of line out, and we had thirty fathom more ready to 

 give him. He never dived, but failed round the veftel like 

 a fhip, always keeping part of his back above water. . The 

 Rais, who directed us, begged we would not pull him, but 

 give him as much more line as he wanted; and indeed we 

 law it was the weight of the line that galled him, for he 

 went round the vefTel without feeking to go farther from 

 us. At laft he came nearer, upon our gathering up the 

 line, and upon gently pulling it after, we brought him along- 

 Ude, till we faftened a ftrong boat-hook in his throat : a 

 man fwung upon a cord was now let down to cut his tail, 

 while hanging on the ihip's fide, but he was, if not abfolute- 

 ly dead, without the power of doing harm. He was eleven 

 feet feven inches from his fnout to his tail,, and nearly four 

 feet round in the thicker! part. of him. He had in him a 

 dolphin very rately fwallowed, and about half a yard of 

 blue cloth. He was the largeft, the Rais faid, he had ever. 

 fzen, either in, the Red Sea or the Indian Ocean. 



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