"the whale," "we'll have to strangle him," said the captain, "or he'll take all our line-- he bit him too far back." The bradey [illegible] was set firmly right at first, thin by thin and thinner, and the line tightened till it seemed as tho' it the brands would part. As the whale was checked in this reel, the steam steamed forward, I was tired with wonderment; for then the water, how-- our the great train soon began to feel the struggle of the whale, he black-- cast his speed and almost stopped. "Free speed on the whale," said the captain, and as the line reeled in the whale was drawn slowly toward the boat. He was blowing continually now, the spray of his spout tinged with red; a not a great mass of blood going from out his spout-- tubes--"He's almost done for," said the captain, "we can land him from the bow."