Identifier: stnicholasserial31dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SOME OF THE MANY SMALL ANIMALS EATEN BY THE WHALE Upper figures : two varieties of Clio (a winged mollusk).Lower figure: a shrimp or prawn. sperm oil, of which more than twenty-five bar-rels have been taken from a single whale. The sperm whales sometimes reach a lenof eighty-five feet, and those seventy feetlong are not uncommon. They goin schools which may contain hundreds of in-dividuals,and arefound ■: «*«*vS3* A HARPOONED WHALE TOWING A BOAT-LOAD OF WHALERSTHROUGH THE WATER AT A RAPID RATE. in all parts of the world except the polar re-gions. They feed mostly on squids, cuttle-fish, and devil-fish, and they are able to destroythe largest of these animals. When harpooned, the sperm whale sometimescrushes boats in its jaws, or overturns them byramming; and instances are recorded wherewhalemen have been caught within the power-ful jaws. There are numbers of cases of ves- Vol. XXXI.—58-59. sels being attacked by sperm whales withoutprovocation, and probably some vessels whichhav

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