this man and this whale again came together, and the one vanquished the other. i say i, myself, have known three instances similar to this; that is in two of them i saw the whales struck; and, upon the second attack, saw the two irons with the respective marks cut in them, afterwards taken from the dead fish. in the three-year instance, it so fell out that i was in the boat both times, first and last, and the last time distinctly recognised a peculiar sort of huge mole under the whale’s eye, which i had observed there three years previous. i say three years, but i am pretty sure it was more than that. here are three instances, then, which i personally know the truth of; but i have heard of many other instances from persons whose veracity in the matter there is no good ground to impeach.