The Arkansas banner., 1850-03-26
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' On ihe 18th of May, lSl7. the Raypl Boaaiv. ss Eagiisa shiT. fei n with sEAas number of wade. fn seventy degrees iwshty fse msnhtsa hsrth .a,,. { tuAe and Ionessaae Eve degrees eaet Thers wa, neither ice nef land n mehf Tse boass wsrc nAn. ned and sent in parsait. ard aiiex a chase of kvs houfs, one of thea. which bAd towsd out ofsigS. ., ahe stIlp siFuck one of tse khsles This ss sgou four o'clock in tts moFsing. Ire esps4in directed tbe coarse of lhs slap to ,ise pob whess he bed ss sss5 He k5Sis, snt secst eis, nriurk sos s,xtt r one which cisrlayed tise signAl Of being tast oou after another boat approached the isrss amp stuck second haa aooa: and by Hsi.-ay, two haspeoal were uada iest.
 Bdi such vas the a.toUssbiny sirer Of tAis whale that alsbcagh t constsaffy dragged through fise water irusa aeur e SIX bosts. tsgetbrr wh ssxss~s haadssd istssoms oi sine, ret ii passBsd its agki nearly as fast as . best could rprR ana wheneses oae passed beyond Us taSi II woH4d dlse. All ess- deavofs in lance were thcrefose Saia aud tit erews of ihe loose boats Docfcd 10 those that nese last the whaie si the line steady towing fhem on At eight o'clock ln inc evening line was taken 10 the ship. wib view of reissding it's Eishf, end -topssils were lowered. but the hafrooa drew la three hours another line was taken on board whach h immediately snapped. At fouf in the afternoon oi the next dsy, ihifty-six hours sfier the whaie was first struck. two Of the iast Liaes were taken On board the ship.
 The sost dreadful display of the whales strength and psowess yet aathensire.fy recorded, yves ,hs, made upoa the Amerlean wiIae-SAsp Essex, Captain Pollard which sailed from aBtuc kef toI tse Pae fife Ocean in August. lsI9. Laie in the lall of the same year, when in latitude forty ot ihe South Pacific. scheoa of sperm whales were discovered, snd tbree bosts wei- manned and sent iR pursuit Tbe msses boat vas struck by one oi them, san he was coiged o return 10 the ship in order to repar the esmage.
 While ae was engaged in thst work, . sperm hale, judged 10 b. eighty i've feet long, broke wat CT about twenty tois from the ship, on her weather bow He was going al the rate oi sbca, three knots hour, and the ship st nearly the same rate, hen he struck the bows oi the vessel just forward ohhet chains
 At the shock produced by the collision of two such mighty masses of matter in rnoioa. iae ship shook like q leaf The seemingly malicious wnsIs dove and passed usrier the ship, gfazing her ke%l snd then appeared al aboui ;he distance of sap's length, tsshing ihe with his ins and ,ali, as Ii saerIBg the most horrible agony. He wss evfdrn, 4 bar' by the eoilisloB and bliadiy iraniie wIth in- slinctive rage
 h few minutes he seemed 10 recover himself aud started with great speed directly across the vessels course to the win.iwari. Meaiisae ihe hanes on board discovered the snip to be gTaanaily settling down al the bows, and the pumps were to be rggsd. Wtiie the crew were srk,ng al them one oi the men cried oal, God have mercy he comes sgslh '
 The whale bad turned st about one hnnhre4 rods from the ship, aad vas making tor her with dnubse his iostaer speed, his pathway zhise with foam.- RaShing head on, he struck her ag4sH at the bow, and inc tremendous blow stove her ia. The whale dived under again and disappeared. and the ship fouDdered "a ten minutes from tfa first collision = Bat i've souls out oi the twenty were saved. h another suihehtie instance, when boat was chasing whale, he suddenly turned to winGwArd. and made directly iof his paisuers, who were so excited ot the chase to be bliRd to danger. On, iherefoIes they madly rasbee. without irying to svciaFe lnfasTsted monster, eager were they 10 plunge inio ban their irosss s the boat struck with such tosce upon tlte whales head to throw the osrsmeB fson their ihwaris. At he sane moment, tiIe boa sieerer leI fly his two harPooas into tire mammoth body, winch Ioied oveI is back; and before the boat coad get clear of dsager being to the windward, heavy sea struck H. aud threw tsem directly into the wiaie's maAth . All. of course, sprang tor their lives, sad they had barely time 10 thfow themselves clear of ihs boat befoIe ii was crushed to pieces by taose poaGsroas jaws. aHd is eJecies crew were prorideBtIaiiy all picked up by another boat. At ieagth. eight o'clock. affeT forty hours of Iaeessaal eKeftion. thIs tenacious asssItei oi hs vast animal ygor aud territorial rights was killed.