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CHAPTER 24. The Advocate.
See subsequent chapters for something more on this head.
Whaling not respectable? Whaling is imperial! By old English statutory law, the whale is declared “a royal fish.” *
Return to passage 1The whale never figured in any grand imposing way? In one of the mighty triumphs given to a Roman general upon his entering the world’s capital, the bones of a whale, brought all the way from the Syrian coast, were the most conspicuous object in the cymballed procession.*
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