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Without getting into those rumors that upset civilians in the seaports and) Tj ET Q 32 1.022 Tw 33 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 692.30 Td (deranged the public mind even far inland, it must be said that professional seamen were especially alarmed.) Tj ET Q 34 2.336 Tw 35 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 678.13 Td (Traders, shipowners, captains of vessels, skippers, and master mariners from Europe and America, naval) Tj ET Q 36 0.314 Tw 37 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 663.96 Td (officers from every country, and at their heels the various national governments on these two continents, were) Tj ET Q 38 0 Tw 39 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 649.78 Td (all extremely disturbed by the business.) Tj ET Q 40 3.660 Tw 41 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 635.61 Td (In essence, over a period of time several ships had encountered "an enormous thing" at sea, a long) Tj ET Q 42 2.306 Tw 43 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 621.44 Td (spindle-shaped object, sometimes giving off a phosphorescent glow, infinitely bigger and faster than any) Tj ET Q 44 0 Tw 45 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 607.26 Td (whale.) Tj ET Q 46 0.589 Tw 47 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 593.09 Td (The relevant data on this apparition, as recorded in various logbooks, agreed pretty closely as to the structure) Tj ET Q 48 0.125 Tw 49 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 578.92 Td (of the object or creature in question, its unprecedented speed of movement, its startling locomotive power, and) Tj ET Q 50 1.556 Tw 51 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 564.74 Td (the unique vitality with which it seemed to be gifted. If it was a cetacean, it exceeded in bulk any whale) Tj ET Q 52 1.192 Tw 53 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 550.57 Td (previously classified by science. No naturalist, neither Cuvier nor Lacépède, neither Professor Dumeril nor) Tj ET Q 54 1.159 Tw 55 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 536.40 Td (Professor de Quatrefages, would have accepted the existence of such a monster sight unseen -- specifically,) Tj ET Q 56 0 Tw 57 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 522.22 Td (unseen by their own scientific eyes.) Tj ET Q 58 1.520 Tw 59 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 508.05 Td (Striking an average of observations taken at different times -- rejecting those timid estimates that gave the) Tj ET Q 60 2.544 Tw 61 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 493.88 Td (object a length of 200 feet, and ignoring those exaggerated views that saw it as a mile wide and three) Tj ET Q 62 1.356 Tw 63 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 479.70 Td (long--you could still assert that this phenomenal creature greatly exceeded the dimensions of anything then) Tj ET Q 64 0 Tw 65 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 465.53 Td (known to ichthyologists, if it existed at all.) Tj ET Q 66 0.232 Tw 67 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 451.36 Td (Now then, it did exist, this was an undeniable fact; and since the human mind dotes on objects of wonder, you) Tj ET Q 68 0.292 Tw 69 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 437.18 Td (can understand the worldwide excitement caused by this unearthly apparition. As for relegating it to the realm) Tj ET Q 70 0 Tw 71 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 423.01 Td (of fiction, that charge had to be dropped.) Tj ET Q 72 3.687 Tw 73 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 408.84 Td (In essence, on July 20, 1866, the steamer Governor Higginson, from the Calcutta & Burnach Steam) Tj ET Q 74 0.332 Tw 75 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 394.66 Td (Navigation Co., encountered this moving mass five miles off the eastern shores of Australia. Captain Baker at) Tj ET Q 76 0.413 Tw 77 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 380.49 Td (first thought he was in the presence of an unknown reef; he was even about to fix its exact position when two) Tj ET Q 78 0.593 Tw 79 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 366.32 Td (waterspouts shot out of this inexplicable object and sprang hissing into the air some 150 feet. So, unless this) Tj ET Q 80 0.177 Tw 81 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 352.14 Td (reef was subject to the intermittent eruptions of a geyser, the Governor Higginson had fair and honest dealings) Tj ET Q 82 0.662 Tw 83 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 337.97 Td (with some aquatic mammal, until then unknown, that could spurt from its blowholes waterspouts mixed with) Tj ET Q 84 0 Tw 85 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 323.80 Td (air and steam.) Tj ET Q 86 2.548 Tw 87 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 309.63 Td (Similar events were likewise observed in Pacific seas, on July 23 of the same year, by the Christopher) Tj ET Q 88 1.355 Tw 89 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 295.45 Td (Columbus from the West India & Pacific Steam Navigation Co. Consequently, this extraordinary cetacean) Tj ET Q 90 0.567 Tw 91 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 281.28 Td (could transfer itself from one locality to another with startling swiftness, since within an interval of just three) Tj ET Q 92 1.163 Tw 93 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 267.11 Td (days, the Governor Higginson and the Christopher Columbus had observed it at two positions on the charts) Tj ET Q 94 0 Tw 95 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 252.93 Td (separated by a distance of more than 700 nautical leagues.) Tj ET Q 96 1.734 Tw 97 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 238.76 Td (Fifteen days later and 2,000 leagues farther, the Helvetia from the Compagnie Nationale and the Shannon) Tj ET Q 98 0.050 Tw 99 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 224.59 Td (from the Royal Mail line, running on opposite tacks in that part of the Atlantic lying between the United States) Tj ET Q 100 0.167 Tw 101 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 210.41 Td (and Europe, respectively signaled each other that the monster had been sighted in latitude 42 degrees 15' north) Tj ET Q 102 0.551 Tw 103 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 196.24 Td (and longitude 60 degrees 35' west of the meridian of Greenwich. From their simultaneous observations, they) Tj ET Q 104 0.341 Tw 105 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 182.07 Td (were able to estimate the mammal's minimum length at more than 350 English feet; this was because both the) Tj ET Q 106 0.146 Tw 107 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 167.89 Td (Shannon and the Helvetia were of smaller dimensions, although each measured 100 meters stem to stern. Now) Tj ET Q 108 0.377 Tw 109 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 153.72 Td (then, the biggest whales, those rorqual whales that frequent the waterways of the Aleutian Islands, have never) Tj ET Q 110 0 Tw 111 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 139.55 Td (exceeded a length of 56 meters--if they reach even that.) Tj ET Q 112 0.293 Tw 113 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 125.37 Td (One after another, reports arrived that would profoundly affect public opinion: new observations taken by the) Tj ET Q 114 0.893 Tw 115 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 111.20 Td (transatlantic liner Pereire, the Inman line's Etna running afoul of the monster, an official report drawn up by) Tj ET Q 116 0.051 Tw 117 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 97.03 Td (officers on the French frigate Normandy, dead-earnest reckonings obtained by the general staff of Commodore) Tj ET Q 118 1.236 Tw 119 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 82.85 Td (Fitz-James aboard the Lord Clyde. In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such) Tj ET Q 120 0 Tw 121 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 68.68 Td (serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.) Tj ET Q 122 0.060 Tw 123 0 Tw 124 BT /F3 8.00 Tf ET 125 q 0.502 g BT 284.96 25.95 Td (Page 1) Tj ET Q 126 127 endstream 128 endobj 129 5 0 obj 130 <</Type /Page 131 /Parent 1 0 R 132 /Resources 2 0 R 133 /Contents 6 0 R>> 134 endobj 135 6 0 obj 136 <</Length 1927>> 137 stream 138 0 J 139 0 j 140 0.57 w 141 BT /F2 12.00 Tf ET 142 0.000 G 143 0.784 0.863 1.000 rg 144 BT /F0 15.00 Tf ET 145 0.000 0.314 0.706 RG 146 0.902 0.902 0.000 rg 147 2.83 w 148 179.09 813.54 237.10 -25.51 re B q 0.863 0.196 0.196 rg BT 187.59 796.28 Td (20000 Leagues Under the Seas) Tj ET Q 149 0.57 w 150 BT /F2 12.00 Tf ET 151 0.000 G 152 0.784 0.863 1.000 rg 153 0.060 Tw 154 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 749.00 Td (In every big city the monster was the latest rage; they sang about it in the coffee houses, they ridiculed it in the) Tj ET Q 155 0.034 Tw 156 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 734.82 Td (newspapers, they dramatized it in the theaters. The tabloids found it a fine opportunity for hatching all sorts of) Tj ET Q 157 1.315 Tw 158 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 720.65 Td (hoaxes. In those newspapers short of copy, you saw the reappearance of every gigantic imaginary creature,) Tj ET Q 159 0.742 Tw 160 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 706.48 Td (from "Moby Dick," that dreadful white whale from the High Arctic regions, to the stupendous kraken whose) Tj ET Q 161 1.315 Tw 162 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 692.30 Td (tentacles could entwine a 500-ton craft and drag it into the ocean depths. They even reprinted reports from) Tj ET Q 163 0.707 Tw 164 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 678.13 Td (ancient times: the views of Aristotle and Pliny accepting the existence of such monsters, then the Norwegian) Tj ET Q 165 0.936 Tw 166 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 663.96 Td (stories of Bishop Pontoppidan, the narratives of Paul Egede, and finally the reports of Captain Harrington --) Tj ET Q 167 0.980 Tw 168 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 649.78 Td (whose good faith is above suspicion--in which he claims he saw, while aboard the Castilian in 1857, one of) Tj ET Q 169 1.389 Tw 170 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 635.61 Td (those enormous serpents that, until then, had frequented only the seas of France's old extremist newspaper,) Tj ET Q 171 0 Tw 172 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 621.44 Td (The Constitutionalist.) Tj ET Q 173 BT /F4 12.00 Tf ET 174 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 593.09 Td (\(end of excerpt\)) Tj ET Q 175 BT /F3 8.00 Tf ET 176 q 0.502 g BT 284.96 25.95 Td (Page 2) Tj ET Q 177 178 endstream 179 endobj 180 7 0 obj 181 <</Type /Page 182 /Parent 1 0 R 183 /Resources 2 0 R 184 /Contents 8 0 R>> 185 endobj 186 8 0 obj 187 <</Length 7038>> 188 stream 189 0 J 190 0 j 191 0.57 w 192 BT /F4 12.00 Tf ET 193 0.000 G 194 0.784 0.863 1.000 rg 195 BT /F0 15.00 Tf ET 196 0.000 0.314 0.706 RG 197 0.902 0.902 0.000 rg 198 2.83 w 199 179.09 813.54 237.10 -25.51 re B q 0.863 0.196 0.196 rg BT 187.59 796.28 Td (20000 Leagues Under the Seas) Tj ET Q 200 0.57 w 201 BT /F4 12.00 Tf ET 202 0.000 G 203 0.784 0.863 1.000 rg 204 BT /F1 12.00 Tf ET 205 0.784 0.863 1.000 rg 206 28.35 759.68 538.58 -17.01 re f q 0.000 g BT 31.19 747.58 Td (Chapter 2 : THE PROS AND CONS) Tj ET Q 207 BT /F2 12.00 Tf ET 208 1.002 Tw 209 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 720.65 Td (During the period in which these developments were occurring, I had returned from a scientific undertaking) Tj ET Q 210 0.608 Tw 211 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 706.48 Td (organized to explore the Nebraska badlands in the United States. In my capacity as Assistant Professor at the) Tj ET Q 212 1.687 Tw 213 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 692.30 Td (Paris Museum of Natural History, I had been attached to this expedition by the French government. After) Tj ET Q 214 2.020 Tw 215 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 678.13 Td (spending six months in Nebraska, I arrived in New York laden with valuable collections near the end of) Tj ET Q 216 1.649 Tw 217 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 663.96 Td (March. My departure for France was set for early May. In the meantime, then, I was busy classifying my) Tj ET Q 218 0 Tw 219 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 649.78 Td (mineralogical, botanical, and zoological treasures when that incident took place with the Scotia.) Tj ET Q 220 0.471 Tw 221 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 635.61 Td (I was perfectly abreast of this question, which was the big news of the day, and how could I not have been? I) Tj ET Q 222 0.782 Tw 223 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 621.44 Td (had read and reread every American and European newspaper without being any farther along. This mystery) Tj ET Q 224 0.516 Tw 225 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 607.26 Td (puzzled me. Finding it impossible to form any views, I drifted from one extreme to the other. Something was) Tj ET Q 226 1.601 Tw 227 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 593.09 Td (out there, that much was certain, and any doubting Thomas was invited to place his finger on the Scotia's) Tj ET Q 228 0 Tw 229 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 578.92 Td (wound.) Tj ET Q 230 1.249 Tw 231 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 564.74 Td (When I arrived in New York, the question was at the boiling point. The hypothesis of a drifting islet or an) Tj ET Q 232 1.561 Tw 233 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 550.57 Td (elusive reef, put forward by people not quite in their right minds, was completely eliminated. And indeed,) Tj ET Q 234 0 Tw 235 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 536.40 Td (unless this reef had an engine in its belly, how could it move about with such prodigious speed?) Tj ET Q 236 0.779 Tw 237 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 522.22 Td (Also discredited was the idea of a floating hull or some other enormous wreckage, and again because of this) Tj ET Q 238 0 Tw 239 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 508.05 Td (speed of movement.) Tj ET Q 240 1.114 Tw 241 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 493.88 Td (So only two possible solutions to the question were left, creating two very distinct groups of supporters: on) Tj ET Q 242 0.914 Tw 243 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 479.70 Td (one side, those favoring a monster of colossal strength; on the other, those favoring an "underwater boat" of) Tj ET Q 244 0 Tw 245 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 465.53 Td (tremendous motor power.) Tj ET Q 246 3.674 Tw 247 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 451.36 Td (Now then, although the latter hypothesis was completely admissible, it couldn't stand up to inquiries) Tj ET Q 248 0.227 Tw 249 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 437.18 Td (conducted in both the New World and the Old. That a private individual had such a mechanism at his disposal) Tj ET Q 250 0 Tw 251 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 423.01 Td (was less than probable. Where and when had he built it, and how could he have built it in secret?) Tj ET Q 252 0.395 Tw 253 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 408.84 Td (Only some government could own such an engine of destruction, and in these disaster-filled times, when men) Tj ET Q 254 1.331 Tw 255 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 394.66 Td (tax their ingenuity to build increasingly powerful aggressive weapons, it was possible that, unknown to the) Tj ET Q 256 0.106 Tw 257 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 380.49 Td (rest of the world, some nation could have been testing such a fearsome machine. The Chassepot rifle led to the) Tj ET Q 258 0.490 Tw 259 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 366.32 Td (torpedo, and the torpedo has led to this underwater battering ram, which in turn will lead to the world putting) Tj ET Q 260 0 Tw 261 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 352.14 Td (its foot down. At least I hope it will.) Tj ET Q 262 1.078 Tw 263 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 337.97 Td (But this hypothesis of a war machine collapsed in the face of formal denials from the various governments.) Tj ET Q 264 0.251 Tw 265 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 323.80 Td (Since the public interest was at stake and transoceanic travel was suffering, the sincerity of these governments) Tj ET Q 266 0.979 Tw 267 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 309.63 Td (could not be doubted. Besides, how could the assembly of this underwater boat have escaped public notice?) Tj ET Q 268 3.430 Tw 269 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 295.45 Td (Keeping a secret under such circumstances would be difficult enough for an individual, and certainly) Tj ET Q 270 0 Tw 271 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 281.28 Td (impossible for a nation whose every move is under constant surveillance by rival powers.) Tj ET Q 272 0.422 Tw 273 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 267.11 Td (So, after inquiries conducted in England, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Italy, America, and even Turkey, the) Tj ET Q 274 0 Tw 275 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 252.93 Td (hypothesis of an underwater Monitor was ultimately rejected.) Tj ET Q 276 2.481 Tw 277 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 238.76 Td (After I arrived in New York, several people did me the honor of consulting me on the phenomenon in) Tj ET Q 278 0.569 Tw 279 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 224.59 Td (question. In France I had published a two-volume work, in quarto, entitled The Mysteries of the Great Ocean) Tj ET Q 280 0.862 Tw 281 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 210.41 Td (Depths. Well received in scholarly circles, this book had established me as a specialist in this pretty obscure) Tj ET Q 282 1.833 Tw 283 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 196.24 Td (field of natural history. My views were in demand. As long as I could deny the reality of the business, I) Tj ET Q 284 0.058 Tw 285 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 182.07 Td (confined myself to a flat "no comment." But soon, pinned to the wall, I had to explain myself straight out. And) Tj ET Q 286 1.637 Tw 287 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 167.89 Td (in this vein, "the honorable Pierre Aronnax, Professor at the Paris Museum," was summoned by The New) Tj ET Q 288 0 Tw 289 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 153.72 Td (York Herald to formulate his views no matter what.) Tj ET Q 290 0.697 Tw 291 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 139.55 Td (I complied. Since I could no longer hold my tongue, I let it wag. I discussed the question in its every aspect,) Tj ET Q 292 0.017 Tw 293 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 125.37 Td (both political and scientific, and this is an excerpt from the well-padded article I published in the issue of April) Tj ET Q 294 0 Tw 295 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 111.20 Td (30.) Tj ET Q 296 2.226 Tw 297 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 82.85 Td ("Therefore," I wrote, "after examining these different hypotheses one by one, we are forced, every other) Tj ET Q 298 0 Tw 299 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 68.68 Td (supposition having been refuted, to accept the existence of an extremely powerful marine animal.) Tj ET Q 300 0.550 Tw 301 0 Tw 302 BT /F3 8.00 Tf ET 303 q 0.502 g BT 284.96 25.95 Td (Page 3) Tj ET Q 304 305 endstream 306 endobj 307 9 0 obj 308 <</Type /Page 309 /Parent 1 0 R 310 /Resources 2 0 R 311 /Contents 10 0 R>> 312 endobj 313 10 0 obj 314 <</Length 4875>> 315 stream 316 0 J 317 0 j 318 0.57 w 319 BT /F2 12.00 Tf ET 320 0.000 G 321 0.784 0.863 1.000 rg 322 BT /F0 15.00 Tf ET 323 0.000 0.314 0.706 RG 324 0.902 0.902 0.000 rg 325 2.83 w 326 179.09 813.54 237.10 -25.51 re B q 0.863 0.196 0.196 rg BT 187.59 796.28 Td (20000 Leagues Under the Seas) Tj ET Q 327 0.57 w 328 BT /F2 12.00 Tf ET 329 0.000 G 330 0.784 0.863 1.000 rg 331 0.550 Tw 332 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 749.00 Td ("The deepest parts of the ocean are totally unknown to us. No soundings have been able to reach them. What) Tj ET Q 333 0.352 Tw 334 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 734.82 Td (goes on in those distant depths? What creatures inhabit, or could inhabit, those regions twelve or fifteen miles) Tj ET Q 335 0 Tw 336 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 720.65 Td (beneath the surface of the water? What is the constitution of these animals? It's almost beyond conjecture.) Tj ET Q 337 3.495 Tw 338 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 706.48 Td ("However, the solution to this problem submitted to me can take the form of a choice between two) Tj ET Q 339 0 Tw 340 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 692.30 Td (alternatives.) Tj ET Q 341 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 678.13 Td ("Either we know every variety of creature populating our planet, or we do not.) Tj ET Q 342 1.250 Tw 343 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 663.96 Td ("If we do not know every one of them, if nature still keeps ichthyological secrets from us, nothing is more) Tj ET Q 344 0.231 Tw 345 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 649.78 Td (admissible than to accept the existence of fish or cetaceans of new species or even new genera, animals with a) Tj ET Q 346 3.022 Tw 347 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 635.61 Td (basically 'cast-iron' constitution that inhabit strata beyond the reach of our soundings, and which some) Tj ET Q 348 1.589 Tw 349 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 621.44 Td (development or other, an urge or a whim if you prefer, can bring to the upper level of the ocean for long) Tj ET Q 350 0 Tw 351 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 607.26 Td (intervals.) Tj ET Q 352 0.321 Tw 353 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 593.09 Td ("If, on the other hand, we do know every living species, we must look for the animal in question among those) Tj ET Q 354 1.409 Tw 355 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 578.92 Td (marine creatures already cataloged, and in this event I would be inclined to accept the existence of a giant) Tj ET Q 356 0 Tw 357 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 564.74 Td (narwhale.) Tj ET Q 358 0.008 Tw 359 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 550.57 Td ("The common narwhale, or sea unicorn, often reaches a length of sixty feet. Increase its dimensions fivefold or) Tj ET Q 360 0.352 Tw 361 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 536.40 Td (even tenfold, then give this cetacean a strength in proportion to its size while enlarging its offensive weapons,) Tj ET Q 362 1.251 Tw 363 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 522.22 Td (and you have the animal we're looking for. It would have the proportions determined by the officers of the) Tj ET Q 364 0 Tw 365 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 508.05 Td (Shannon, the instrument needed to perforate the Scotia, and the power to pierce a steamer's hull.) Tj ET Q 366 0.130 Tw 367 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 493.88 Td ("In essence, the narwhale is armed with a sort of ivory sword, or lance, as certain naturalists have expressed it.) Tj ET Q 368 1.326 Tw 369 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 479.70 Td (It's a king-sized tooth as hard as steel. Some of these teeth have been found buried in the bodies of baleen) Tj ET Q 370 3.771 Tw 371 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 465.53 Td (whales, which the narwhale attacks with invariable success. Others have been wrenched, not without) Tj ET Q 372 0.119 Tw 373 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 451.36 Td (difficulty, from the undersides of vessels that narwhales have pierced clean through, as a gimlet pierces a wine) Tj ET Q 374 0.649 Tw 375 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 437.18 Td (barrel. The museum at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris owns one of these tusks with a length of 2.25 meters) Tj ET Q 376 0 Tw 377 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 423.01 Td (and a width at its base of forty-eight centimeters!) Tj ET Q 378 0.467 Tw 379 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 408.84 Td ("All right then! Imagine this weapon to be ten times stronger and the animal ten times more powerful, launch) Tj ET Q 380 0.980 Tw 381 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 394.66 Td (it at a speed of twenty miles per hour, multiply its mass times its velocity, and you get just the collision we) Tj ET Q 382 0 Tw 383 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 380.49 Td (need to cause the specified catastrophe.) Tj ET Q 384 1.067 Tw 385 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 366.32 Td ("So, until information becomes more abundant, I plump for a sea unicorn of colossal dimensions, no longer) Tj ET Q 386 0.631 Tw 387 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 352.14 Td (armed with a mere lance but with an actual spur, like ironclad frigates or those warships called 'rams,' whose) Tj ET Q 388 0 Tw 389 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 337.97 Td (mass and motor power it would possess simultaneously.) Tj ET Q 390 1.992 Tw 391 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 323.80 Td ("This inexplicable phenomenon is thus explained away--unless it's something else entirely, which, despite) Tj ET Q 392 0 Tw 393 q 0.000 g BT 31.19 309.63 Td (everything that has been sighted, studied, explored and experienced, is still possible!") 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