Author: Harris Coll

Cited by

• Herman Melville (1)
  • IN: Moby-Dick (1851) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We set sail from the Elbe, wind N.E. in the ship called the Jonas-in-the-Whale.... Some say the whale can't open his mouth, but that is a fable.... They frequently climb up the masts to see whether they can see a whale, for the first discoverer has a ducat for his pains.... I was told of a whale taken near Shetland, that had above a barrel of herrings in his belly.... One of our harpooners told me that he caught once a whale in Spitzbergen that was white all over.
    FROM: A Voyage to Greenland, A.D. 1671. Harris Coll., (1671), NULL, NULL