book iii. (duodecimo), chapter iii. (mealy-mouthed porpoise).—the largest kind of porpoise; and only found in the pacific, so far as it is known. the only english name, by which he has hitherto been designated, is that of the fishers—right-whale porpoise, from the circumstance that he is chiefly found in the vicinity of that folio. in shape, he differs in some degree from the huzza porpoise, being of a less rotund and jolly girth; indeed, he is of quite a neat and gentleman-like figure. he has no fins on his back (most other porpoises have), he has a lovely tail, and sentimental indian eyes of a hazel hue. but his mealy-mouth spoils all. though his entire back down to his side fins is of a deep sable, yet a boundary line, distinct as the mark in a ship’s hull, called the "bright waist," that line streaks him from stem to stern, with two separate colours, black above and white below.