BOOK I. (_Folio_), CHAPTER V. (_Razor Back_).—Of this whale little is

known but his name. I have seen him at a distance off Cape Horn. Of a

retiring nature, he eludes both hunters and philosophers. Though no

coward, he has never yet shown any part of him but his back, which

rises in a long sharp ridge. Let him go. I know little more of him, nor

does anybody else.