CHAPTER XVI. The Tale of a Whale

THE TALE OF A WHALE

Circumpolar Bowhead makes his last stand--Whales here and elsewhere--The Yankee peddler at Canada's back-door--Thirteen and a half million in whale values--Wind-swept Herschel, the Isle of Whales--One wife for a thousand years--Baleen, Spermaceti, and Ambergris--Save the Whale