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sight in all my voyage - at least not ^[[one [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] will prove [[strikethrough]] one [[/strikethrough]] ]] more [[underlined]] novel [[/underlined]] ^[[ [[strikethrough]] one [[/strikethrough]] ]] [[strikethrough]] one to me. [[/strikethrough]] than this did ^[[ [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ]] [[underlined]] to me. [[/underlined]]
These two whales were side by side their motion^[[s]] ^[[were]] [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] simultaneous. Had they been ^[[a pair of]] Naids [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] they could not have been more ^[[uniform]] [[strikethrough]] like [[/strikethrough]] in their movements. They came up to-gether - "Blowed" together & descended together. ^[[ [[strikethrough]] passed along together. [[/strikethrough]] ]]
The while all this was going on two ^[[whale]] boats were being lowered each having a [[strikethrough]] picked [[/strikethrough]] ^[[chosen]] crew. Like arrows ^[[ [[strikethrough]] the [[?]] boats [[/strikethrough]] ]] [[strikethrough]] they [[/strikethrough]] ^[[they]] shot forward toward the Whales which soon altered their course [[strikethrough]] & [[/strikethrough]] ^[[ [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ]] movements.
For one hour did the 2 crews foll[[?]] up in the wake of these W[[?]]ale, of the deep. [[strikethrough]] As [[/strikethrough]] Soon as [[?]] boats would make ^[[their]] [[strikethrough]] its [[/strikethrough]] appear[[?]] th[[?]] would push for 
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