id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-084 chapter-084 .txt text/plain 1167 45 71 THE HONOR AND GLORY OF WHALING great demi-gods and heroes, prophets of all sorts, who one way or other the eternal honor of our calling be it said, that the first whale knows the fine story of Perseus and Andromeda; how the lovely to be indirectly derived from it--is that famous story of St. George and dragon of the sea," saith Ezekiel; hereby, plainly meaning a whale; in of those times, when the true form of the whale was unknown to artists; and considering that as in Perseus' case, St. George's whale might have with a whale like their great patron), let them never eye a Nantucketer Hercules and the whale is considered to be derived from the still more ancient Hebrew story of Jonah and the whale; and vice vers; certainly Was not this Vishnoo a whaleman, then? Perseus, St. George, Hercules, Jonah, and Vishnoo! What club but the whaleman's can head off like ./cache/chapter-084.txt ./txt/chapter-084.txt