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Algerine Porpoise

Moby-Dick Cetology
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BOOK III (Duodecimo), CHAPTER II. (Algerine Porpoise)
A pirate. Very savage. He is only found, I think, in the Pacific. He is somewhat larger than the Huzza Porpoise, but much of the same general make. Provoke him, and he will buckle to a shark. I have lowered for him many times, but never yet saw him captured.

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