Author: Richard Strafford

Cited by

• Herman Melville (1)
  • IN: Moby-Dick (1851) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Myself have agreed to try whether I can master and kill this Sperma-ceti whale, for I could never hear of any of that sort that was killed by any man, such is his fierceness and swiftness.
    FROM: Richard Strafford's Letter from the Bermudas. Phil. Trans. A.D. 1668, (1668), Letter, UK