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Espied by some timid man-of-war or blundering discovery-vessel from afar, when the distance obscuring the swarming fowls, nevertheless still shows the white mass floating in the sun, and the white spray heaving high against it; straightway the whale's unharming corpse, with trembling fingers is set down in the log -- shoals, rocks, and breakers hereabouts: beware Then came the man-of-war that threw shells for miles into the hills, frightening the people out of their villages and into the deeper bush. But I can declare she is a man-of-war, for a long pennant flutters from her main mast. |
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