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. tions now-a-days. We sank him, and that was the
last of it. After he had towed us I don’t know how
out of sight of the ship at any vate—he sud-
denly stopped, and we pulled up and gave him some
tremendous digs with the lances, until he spouted jets
of blood, and we made sure of him, when all at once
down he went head-foremost like a cannon ball, and
took all the line out of both boats, so we had to cut,
and he never came up again. At least, if he did it
became so dark that we never saw him. Then we
pulled to where we thought the ship was, and, after
rowing nearly all night, caught sight of your lights ;
and here we are, dead tired, wet to the skin, and minus
about two miles of whale-line and three harpoons.”

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