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[[in pencil]] 69 [[/pencil]] in another 2 1/2 minutes I had him up in [[strikethrough]] smelling within [[/strikethrough]] the Sun's rays with a harpoon stuck [[strikethrough]] clean [[/strikethrough]] through him. Poor, [[insertion]] Rotten [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough], [[underlined]] Fat [[/underlined]]- old - Halibut! how I felt for thee, writhing & struggling in thy native element, [[underlined]] with [[/underlined]]the traps of civilization a-"Cod"-hook [[insertion]] in thy mouth [[/insertion]] & a harpoon through thy back! But the empty stomachs of White men, I knew, could not withstand thy inviting self. You, [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] old fellow had not spared a store of young crabs & various species of fish - which you had swallowed alive - teeth & toenail- you had even within your stomach a fish nearly your own length thus showing that you had no respect for [[underlined]] great [[/underlined]] or little. If you, old gormandizer [[strikethrough]] yet sweet [[/strikethrough]] did not spare even your own kind, how could we spare thee? A fact worthy of record: That between [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] 11 1/2 o'clock last night & 12 1/2 AM [[underlined]] making just one hour, [[/underlined]] one ton weight of Cod fish [[underlined]](Morrhua [[end page]] [[start page]] [[in pencil]] 70 [[/pencil]] callarius) [[/underlined]] and Halibut or halibut, [[underlined]] (Hippoglossus vulgaris) [[/underlined]] was taken by the use of only three lines, several of the latter weighing upwards of 200 lbs each. It is said [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]]specimens of [[/insertion]]this [[strikethrough]] kind of Halb [[/strikethrough]] species of Halibut are frequently caught in this vicinity weighing 500 lbs each & measuring 18 feet in length! The Esquimaux here in Greenland use the transparent membrane of the stomach of this[[insertion]] fish [[/insertion]] instead of plates of glass. At 12 1/2 o'clock we were obliged to take in lines, a good breeze springing up, carrying the vessel along with it toward the North, an object paramount to all others. I turned in to sleep - but the excitement of the Fishing-hour robbed me of all power to feel sufficiently resigned that balmy sleep might rule over me. All night the [[insertion]] 2 [[/insertion]] poor [[insertion]] but [[/insertion]] faithful Esquimaux who are our pilots to Holsteinburg, kept the deck watching the almost obscured [[end page]]