The month of October in those latitudes gave us some lovely autumnal days. Looking attentively, one might see its black back rise and fall with the waves five miles from the Nautilus. It is one of large size. Then the southern whale is still unknown to you. It is the Greenland whale you have hunted up to this time, and that would not risk passing through the warm waters of the equator.
Whales are localised, according to their kinds, in certain seas which they never leave.
Ned stamped his feet. His hand trembled, as he grasped an imaginary harpoon. Because I have seen large whales, sir, whales measuring a hundred feet. That seems to me exaggeration. These creatures are generally much smaller than the Greenland whale.