Devil take it! In these seas it is fishing we ought to be at, not--" Then, stopping short, he swore a few oaths, and cried out, "And that other whale!" "The one with a hump like a dromedary ?" asked a sailor.
"Yes.

It is a humpback," replied Hearne.

"Do you make out its wrinkled belly, and also its long dorsal fin?
They're not easy to take, those humpbacks, for they go down into great depths and devour long reaches of your lines.

Truly, we deserve that he should give us a switch of his tail on our side, since we don't send a harpoon into his." "Look out! Look out!" shouted the boatswain.

This was not to warn us that we were in danger of receiving the formidable stroke of the humpback's tail which the sealing-master had wished us.