the opposite wall of this entry was hung all over with a heathenish array of monstrous clubs and spears. some were thickly set with glittering teeth resembling ivory saws; others were tufted with knots of human hair; and one was sickle-shaped, with a vast handle sweeping round like the segment made in the new-mown grass by a long-armed mower. you shuddered as you gazed, and wondered what monstrous cannibal and savage could ever have gone a death-harvesting with such a hacking, horrifying implement. mixed with these were rusty old whaling lances and harpoons all broken and deformed. some were storied weapons. with this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did nathan swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset. and that harpoon—so like a corkscrew now—was flung in javan seas, and run away with by a whale, years afterwards slain off the cape of blanco. the original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a restless needle sojourning in the body of a man, travelled full forty feet, and at last was found imbedded in the hump.