The Great Sea-serpent: An Historical and Critical TreatiseE.J. Brill, 1892 - 592 páginas |
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... sperm whales , and being very anxious to obtain oil , ordered my ship to be kept off , and immediately went aloft ... sperm whales . I knew it was not a whale . The head I could not see , but the body had a motion like the waving of a ...
... sperm whales , and being very anxious to obtain oil , ordered my ship to be kept off , and immediately went aloft ... sperm whales . I knew it was not a whale . The head I could not see , but the body had a motion like the waving of a ...
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... sperm whale , which was out of temper ; why else should it have been so angry that it followed the bark nine days , cuffing it " most of the time " ? Moreover the nature of sperm whales is well enough known as angry and war - like . 1 ...
... sperm whale , which was out of temper ; why else should it have been so angry that it followed the bark nine days , cuffing it " most of the time " ? Moreover the nature of sperm whales is well enough known as angry and war - like . 1 ...
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... sperm - whales . CHARLETON in 1668 quotes only ALDROVANDUS and OLAUS MAG- NUS , giving neither description nor figures . 3 . - OPPIDAN . 1687 . ( RAMUS , Norges Beskrivelse , quoted by PONT- " In the year 1687 a Great Sea - Serpent was ...
... sperm - whales . CHARLETON in 1668 quotes only ALDROVANDUS and OLAUS MAG- NUS , giving neither description nor figures . 3 . - OPPIDAN . 1687 . ( RAMUS , Norges Beskrivelse , quoted by PONT- " In the year 1687 a Great Sea - Serpent was ...
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... whale to the bottom head first . Again , on July 13 , a similar serpent was seen about 200 yards off the Pauline ... sperm whales , and one of them was gripped round the body with two turns of what appeared to be a huge serpent . The ...
... whale to the bottom head first . Again , on July 13 , a similar serpent was seen about 200 yards off the Pauline ... sperm whales , and one of them was gripped round the body with two turns of what appeared to be a huge serpent . The ...
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... sperm whale , whose circumference is about forty feet . " Or they may have witnessed the amours of two whales , and have seen the great creatures rolling over and over that they might breathe alter- nately by the blow - hole of each ...
... sperm whale , whose circumference is about forty feet . " Or they may have witnessed the amours of two whales , and have seen the great creatures rolling over and over that they might breathe alter- nately by the blow - hole of each ...
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