The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-11
THAT WHITE WHALE.
Sighted Again In the Lower sound, lat4 t4.. IL L.. IL.

Sighted Again In the Lower Sound. The white whale that skylarked in the waters around Watch Hill and Block Island last week has been sight ed again further down the Sound, Six young men from Long Island declare
 that they saw it leisurely cruising in
 Long Island Sound, off Lloyd's Neck. They are George P and Fl. K. Vail, Frank Price and William Hicks of Glen Cove, Thomas Tabor of Roslyn and Zebulon Wilson of Lattingtown. White whales or any other kind of whales are so genuine a curiosity in the placid | waters of the Sound that the young | men feel that they have had almost as | unusual an experience in viewing this White leviathan as Captain Peabody of the Yankee clippership Tam O'Shanter when he ran up against the wonderful sea serpent off the coast of Borneo. The six young Long Islanders saw the whale at 9:30 in the morning when they were returning in the catboat Do- ris from Huntington, whither they had gone to see the races of the Hunting ton Yacht club. The absence of wind had spoiled the races, but it had it's | compensations in yielding several fine views of the whale.
 Yachtman Frank Price said: "We started for home at a. m and had got | out Of the mouth of the harbor and within half a mile of Lloyd's Neck Point in water as smooth as glass with
 not a breath stirring. when MT. Hicks | or MT. Tabor, or both, shouted to us to | look over the starboard bow.
 | We looked to the eastward and saw
 what we first thought was a porpoise, ! but which we soon decided couldn't be
 a porpoise. It rose slowly out of the water about fifty yards from the boat.
 It had a white skin and the part re- vealed to us was between twenty-five
 and thirty feet long and about two feet
 above the water line at the middle of the back It remained perfectly still
 above water between three and five minutes and then vanished, reappear- l ing after about the same length of time l after having travelled about one hum | dred yards to the eastward,
 Then it was about abeam of the l boat. We were anxiously watching I for it's reappearance, and when it came l up we say smaller fish right behind l it, The other fish was of darker color, I and about five feet of it's body showed above water. It wasn't part of the whale and wasn't a porpoise either. | We saw both the whale and the small
 CT fish again a third time and just | astern of the boat, and then both dis
 appeared. We would have tried to l turn about ard get closer to the pair
 had there been any wind. but unfortu- l nately there wasn't.
 l Two of the six men who saw the l whale never take anything stronger | than apollinaris, and none of us had. in | fact, taken anything with breakfast l but water. Therefore, we are all sure that our eyesight was accurate.
 l MT. Vail said:
 l T have seen white whales, but I nev- CT saw any one exactly like the one we
 saw this time. It was as white as a new canvas, and had no back fins nor any of the characteristics of a porpoise
 It must have been about fifty feet in l length at least, allowing for what we
 saw of its bodyJ and that must have been about seven feet in diameter in
 the part that was displayed above the water The fish that followed was l brownish black and appeared the mo- ment the white hody disappeared, and
 disappeared when the white body reap peared. .'-New London Day