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Mad with the agonies he endures from these fresh attacks, the infuriated Sperm Whale rolls over and over; he rears his enormous head, and with wide expanded jaws snaps at everything around him; he rushes at the boats with his head; they are propelled before him with vast swiftness, and sometimes utterly destroyed.

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Thomas Beale

Thomas Beale

Born: 1775
Died: 1841 (aged 66)
Bio: Thomas Beale, was a Scottish naturalist, opium speculator and general merchant operating in the Far East during the 19th century.

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