Author: Von Troil, Uno

Cited by

• Herman Melville (1)
  • IN: Moby-Dick (1851) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The larger whales, they seldom venture to attack. They stand in so great dread of some of them, that when out at sea they are afraid to mention even their names, and carry dung, lime-stone, juniper-wood, and some other articles of the same nature in their boats, in order to terrify and prevent their too near approach.
    FROM: Uno Von Troil's Letters on Banks's and Solander's Voyage to Iceland in 1772, (1772), Letter, Sweden