The Shark Massacre

<sc>When</sc> in the Southern Fishery, a captured Sperm Whale, after long and weary toil, is brought alongside late at night, it is not, as a general thing at least, customary to proceed at once to the business of cutting him in. For that business...

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Melville, Herman
Format: Book Part
Language:unknown
Published: Oxford University Press 2008
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199535729.003.0069
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Summary:<sc>When</sc> in the Southern Fishery, a captured Sperm Whale, after long and weary toil, is brought alongside late at night, it is not, as a general thing at least, customary to proceed at once to the business of cutting him in. For that business...