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The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale
Thomas Nickerson and Owen Chase
- Form
- Form Memoir
- Year
- Year 1821
- Pages
- Pages 160
An eighty-five foot sperm whale turned in the water, aimed itself at the bows of a Nantucket whaleship, and struck twice; the second blow stove her in and the sea came through. Twenty men left the wreck in three open boats, choosing two thousand miles of empty Pacific over the nearer islands they believed held cannibals, and in ninety days at sea they became the thing they had run from.
coming down apparently with twice his ordinary speed, and to me at that moment, it appeared with tenfold fury and vengeance in his aspect
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