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The
more
I
dive
into
this
matter
of
whaling
,
and
push
my
researches
up
to
the
very
spring-head
of
it
so
much
the
more
am
I
impressed
with
its
great
honorableness
and
antiquity
;
and
especially
when
I
find
so
many
great
demi-gods
and
heroes
,
prophets
of
all
sorts
,
who
one
way
or
other
have
shed
distinction
upon
it
,
I
am
transported
with
the
reflection
that
I
myself
belong
,
though
but
subordinately
,
to
so
emblazoned
a
fraternity
.
The
gallant
Perseus
,
a
son
of
Jupiter
,
was
the
first
whaleman
;
and
to
the
eternal
honor
of
our
calling
be
it
said
,
that
the
first
whale
attacked
by
our
brotherhood
was
not
killed
with
any
sordid
intent
.
Those
were
the
knightly
days
of
our
profession
,
when
we
only
bore
arms
to
succor
the
distressed
,
and
not
to
fill
men
's
lamp-feeders
.
Every
one
knows
the
fine
story
of
Perseus
and
Andromeda
;
how
the
lovely
Andromeda
,
the
daughter
of
a
king
,
was
tied
to
a
rock
on
the
sea-coast
,
and
as
Leviathan
was
in
the
very
act
of
carrying
her
off
,
Perseus
,
the
prince
of
whalemen
,
intrepidly
advancing
,
harpooned
the
monster
,
and
delivered
and
married
the
maid
.
It
was
an
admirable
artistic
exploit
,
rarely
achieved
by
the
best
harpooneers
of
the
present
day
;
inasmuch
as
this
Leviathan
was
slain
at
the
very
first
dart
.
And
let
no
man
doubt
this
Arkite
story
;
for
in
the
ancient
Joppa
,
now
Jaffa
,
on
the
Syrian
coast
,
in
one
of
the
Pagan
temples
,
there
stood
for
many
ages
the
vast
skeleton
of
a
whale
,
which
the
city
's
legends
and
all
the
inhabitants
asserted
to
be
the
identical
bones
of
the
monster
that
Perseus
slew
.
When
the
Romans
took
Joppa
,
the
same
skeleton
was
carried
to
Italy
in
triumph
.
What
seems
most
singular
and
suggestively
important
in
this
story
,
is
this
:
it
was
from
Joppa
that
Jonah
set
sail
.
Akin
to
the
adventure
of
Perseus
and
Andromeda
--
indeed
,
by
some
supposed
to
be
indirectly
derived
from
it
--
is
that
famous
story
of
St.
George
and
the
Dragon
;
which
dragon
I
maintain
to
have
been
a
whale
;
for
in
many
old
chronicles
whales
and
dragons
are
strangely
jumbled
together
,
and
often
stand
for
each
other
.
"
Thou
art
as
a
lion
of
the
waters
,
and
as
a
dragon
of
the
sea
,
"
said
Ezekiel
;
hereby
,
plainly
meaning
a
whale
;
in
truth
,
some
versions
of
the
Bible
use
that
word
itself
.
Besides
,
it
would
much
subtract
from
the
glory
of
the
exploit
had
St.
George
but
encountered
a
crawling
reptile
of
the
land
,
instead
of
doing
battle
with
the
great
monster
of
the
deep
.
Any
man
may
kill
a
snake
,
but
only
a
Perseus
,
a
St.
George
,
a
Coffin
,
have
the
heart
in
them
to
march
boldly
up
to
a
whale
.
Let
not
the
modern
paintings
of
this
scene
mislead
us
;
for
though
the
creature
encountered
by
that
valiant
whaleman
of
old
is
vaguely
represented
of
a
griffin-like
shape
,
and
though
the
battle
is
depicted
on
land
and
the
saint
on
horseback
,
yet
considering
the
great
ignorance
of
those
times
,
when
the
true
form
of
the
whale
was
unknown
to
artists
;
and
considering
that
as
in
Perseus
'
case
,
St.
George
's
whale
might
have
crawled
up
out
of
the
sea
on
the
beach
;
and
considering
that
the
animal
ridden
by
St.
George
might
have
been
only
a
large
seal
,
or
sea-horse
;
bearing
all
this
in
mind
,
it
will
not
appear
altogether
incompatible
with
the
sacred
legend
and
the
ancientest
draughts
of
the
scene
,
to
hold
this
so-called
dragon
no
other
than
the
great
Leviathan
himself
.
In
fact
,
placed
before
the
strict
and
piercing
truth
,
this
whole
story
will
fare
like
that
fish
,
flesh
,
and
fowl
idol
of
the
Philistines
,
Dagon
by
name
;
who
being
planted
before
the
ark
of
Israel
,
his
horse
's
head
and
both
the
palms
of
his
hands
fell
off
from
him
,
and
only
the
stump
or
fishy
part
of
him
remained
.
Thus
,
then
,
one
of
our
own
noble
stamp
,
even
a
whaleman
,
is
the
tutelary
guardian
of
England
;
and
by
good
rights
,
we
harpooneers
of
Nantucket
should
be
enrolled
in
the
most
noble
order
of
St.
George
.
And
therefore
,
let
not
the
knights
of
that
honorable
company
(
none
of
whom
,
I
venture
to
say
,
have
ever
had
to
do
with
a
whale
like
their
great
patron
)
,
let
them
never
eye
a
Nantucketer
with
disdain
,
since
even
in
our
woollen
frocks
and
tarred
trowers
we
are
much
better
entitled
to
St.
George
's
decoration
than
they
.
Whether
to
admit
Hercules
among
us
or
not
,
concerning
this
I
long
remained
dubious
:
for
though
according
to
the
Greek
mythologies
,
that
antique
Crockett
and
Kit
Carson
--
that
brawny
doer
of
rejoicing
good
deeds
,
was
swallowed
down
and
thrown
up
by
a
whale
;
still
,
whether
that
strictly
makes
a
whaleman
of
him
,
that
might
be
mooted
.
It
nowhere
appears
that
he
ever
actually
harpooned
his
fish
,
unless
,
indeed
,
from
the
inside
.
Nevertheless
,
he
may
be
deemed
a
sort
of
involuntary
whaleman
;
at
any
rate
the
whale
caught
him
,
if
he
did
not
the
whale
.
I
claim
him
for
one
of
our
clan
.
But
,
by
the
best
contradictory
authorities
,
this
Grecian
story
of
Hercules
and
the
whale
is
considered
to
be
derived
from
the
still
more
ancient
Hebrew
story
of
Jonah
and
the
whale
;
and
vice
versa
;
certainly
they
are
very
similar
.
If
I
claim
the
demigod
then
,
why
not
the
prophet
?
Nor
do
heroes
,
saints
,
demigods
,
and
prophets
alone
comprise
the
whole
roll
of
our
order
.
Our
grand
master
is
still
to
be
named
;
for
like
royal
kings
of
old
times
,
we
find
the
head-waters
of
our
fraternity
in
nothing
short
of
the
great
gods
themselves
.
That
wondrous
oriental
story
is
now
to
be
rehearsed
from
the
Shaster
,
which
gives
us
the
dread
Vishnoo
,
one
of
the
three
persons
in
the
godhead
of
the
Hindoos
;
gives
us
this
divine
Vishnoo
himself
for
our
Lord
;
--
Vishnoo
,
who
,
by
the
first
of
his
ten
earthly
incarnations
,
has
for
ever
set
apart
and
sanctified
the
whale
When
Brahma
,
or
the
God
of
Gods
,
saith
the
Shaster
,
resolved
to
recreate
the
world
after
one
of
its
periodical
dissolutions
,
he
gave
birth
to
Vishnoo
,
to
preside
over
the
work
;
but
the
Vedas
,
or
mystical
books
,
whose
perusal
would
seem
to
have
been
indispensable
to
Vishnoo
before
beginning
the
creation
,
and
which
therefore
must
have
contained
something
in
the
shape
of
practical
hints
to
young
architects
,
these
Vedas
were
lying
at
the
bottom
of
the
waters
;
so
Vishnoo
became
incarnate
in
a
whale
,
and
sounding
down
in
him
to
the
uttermost
depths
,
rescued
the
sacred
volumes
.
Was
not
this
Vishnoo
a
whaleman
,
then
?
even
as
a
man
who
rides
a
horse
is
called
a
horseman
?
