But in a short time she turned and came back.

Her feelings of anxiety had returned, no doubt, after the first sting of pain was over, and she died at last close to the side of her young one.
There are various kinds of whales, but the two sorts that are most sought after are the common whale of the Greenland Seas, which is called the "right whale", and the sperm whale of the South Sea.

Both kinds are found in the south; but the sperm whale never goes to the North Seas.

Both kinds grow to an enormous size--sometimes to seventy feet in length, but there is considerable difference in their appearance, especially about the head.

In a former chapter I have partly described the head of a _right_ whale, which has whalebone instead of teeth, with its blowholes on the back of the head.