is very savage—a sort of Fiji fish. He sometimes takes the great Folio whales by the lip, and hangs there like a leech, till the mighty brute is worried to death. The Killer is never hunted. I never heard what sort of oil he has. Exception might be taken to the name bestowed upon this whale, on the ground of its indistinctness. For we are all killers, on land and on sea; Bonapartes and Sharks included.
Book II (“Octavo”), chapter V (“Thrasher”).—This gentleman is famous for his tail, which he uses for a ferule in thrashing his foes. He mounts the Folio whale’s back, and as he swims, he works his passage by flogging him; as some schoolmasters get along in the world by a similar process. Still less is known of the Thrasher than of the Killer. Both are outlaws, even in the lawless seas.
Thus ends Book II (“Octavo”), and begins Book III (“Duodecimo”).
Duodecimoes .—These include the smaller whales. I , The “Huzza Porpoise”; II , the “Algerine Porpoise”; III , the “Mealymouthed Porpoise.”