For one hour this wholesale massacre continued, from which the cachalots could not escape. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The battle between the cachalots and the whales had already begun when the ❋ Unknown (2003)
One could judge beforehand that the cachalots would be victorious, not only because they were better built for attack than their inoffensive adversaries, but also because they could remain longer under water without coming to the surface. ❋ Unknown (2003)
At length the mass of cachalots broke up, the waves became quiet, and I felt that we were rising to the surface. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Some terrified cachalots were flying towards the horizon. ❋ Unknown (2003)
So in leisurely fashion we worked north, keeping, of course, a bright look-out all the way for straggling cachalots, but not seeing any. ❋ Frank T. Bullen (1886)
We had hardly got well clear of the heads before we saw a school of cachalots away on the horizon, some twelve miles off the land to the southward. ❋ Frank T. Bullen (1886)
There were a couple of "bay" whaling stations existing; but, of course, their success could not be expected to be great among the cachalots, who usually keep a respectful distance from harbours, while they had driven the right whales away almost entirely. ❋ Frank T. Bullen (1886)
We found whales scarce and small, so, although we cruised in this vicinity for nearly two months, six small cow cachalots were all we were able to add to our stock, representing less then two hundred barrels of oil. ❋ Frank T. Bullen (1886)
I am inclined now to believe that there are more and larger cachalots to be found in the Southern ❋ Frank T. Bullen (1886)
Just as the _ci-devant_ whalesman had finished making this observation, the _cachalots_ came past, causing the sea to undulate for miles around the spot, -- as if a tempest had swept over, and was succeeded by its swell. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
It was the thought of this that came into the mind of the ex-whalesman; and rendered him apprehensive, -- as he saw the school of _cachalots_ coming on towards the spot occupied by the frail embarkation. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
For there were no whales in the old chalk ocean; but our modern oceans are full of cachalots, porpoises, dolphins, swimming in shoals round any ship; and their bones and teeth, and still more their ear-bones, will drop to the bottom as they die, and be found, ages hence, in the mud which the live atomies make, along with wrecks of mighty ships ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)
They have plenty of natural enemies — cachalots, swordfish, and sawfish — without you troubling them.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
I believe in the existence of a mammal power fully organised, belonging to the branch of vertebrata, like the whales, the cachalots, or the dolphins, and furnished with a horn of defence of great penetrating power.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
