Identifier: castawayincoldol00haye (find matches)
Title: Cast away in the cold : an old man's story of a young man's adventures, as related by Captain John Hardy, mariner
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Hayes, I. I. (Isaac Israel), 1832-1881
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Publisher: Boston : Lee and Shepard
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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up by theirbreath. So you see the common expression of the whale-fishers, There she blows! is a very good one; for sometimes,when the whale is very large, the spray looks like a smallwaterspout in .the sea. Besides the narwhal, which I have told you about, I sawanother kind of whale, even smaller still. This is called thewhite whale, though it is nt exactly white, but a sort of cream-color. They had no horns, however, like the narwhal ; andthey skimmed along through the water in great numbers, andvery close together, and when they come to the surface theybreathe so quickly that the noise they make is like a sharp hiss. Considering the numbers of these animals, — the sealsand walruses and narwhals and white whales, — I was notsurprised, when I went close down to the beach, to find agreat quantity of their bones there, evidently of animals that je CAST AWAY IN THE COLD. had died in the sea and been washed ashore. Indeed, as Iwent along a httle farther, and had reached nearly to the
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John Hardy making Discoveries. place where I had left the Dean, I found the whole carcassof a narwhal lying among the rocks, where it had beenthrown by the waves, and very near it I discovered also adead seal. About these there were several foxes, which wentscampering away as soon as they saw me. They had evi-dently come there to get their dinner ; for they had torn agreat hole in the side of the dead narwhal, and two of themhad begun on the seal. I thought if I could get some of theskins of these pretty foxes, they would be nice warm thingsto wrap the Deans hands and feet in, so I began flinging CAST AWAY IN THE COLD. JJ Stones at them as hard as I could ; but the cunning beastsdodged every one of them, and, running away up the hillside,chattered in such a lively manner that it seemed as if theywere laughing at me, which provoked me so much that Iwent on vowing to get the better of them in one way oranother. All this time, you must remember, I had left the poorDean by himself, and yo

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