You've got no right to risk our lives that way.

Wasn't the pilot boat _Annie Mine_ sunk by a whale right in the Golden Gate?
Didn't I sail in as a youngster, second mate on the brig _Berncastle_, into Hakodate, pumping double watches to keep afloat just because a whale took a smash at us?
Didn't the full- rigged ship, the whaler _Essex_, sink off the west coast of South America, twelve hundred miles from the nearest land for the small boats to cover, and all because of a big cow whale that butted her into kindling-wood ?" And Simon Nishikanta, in his grouch, disdaining to reply, would continue to pepper the last whale into flight beyond the circle of the sea their vision commanded.
"I remember the whaleship _Essex_," the Ancient Mariner told Dag Daughtry.

"It was a cow with a calf that did for her.

Her barrels were two-thirds full, too.

She went down in less than an hour.