Covert pronounced him a high pressure affair, with horizontal engines and carrying ninety pounds to the inch.
After sporting awhile in the misty distance, the whale came near us.
It was almost calm and we could see him without glasses.

He rose and disappeared at intervals of a minute, and as he moved along he rippled the surface like a subsoil plough on a gigantic scale.

After ten or twelve small dives, he threw his tail in air and went down for ten minutes or more.

When he reappeared he was two or three hundred yards from his diving place.
Once he disappeared in this way and came up within ten feet of our bows.

Had he risen beneath us the shock would have been severe for both ship and whale.