The enormous cetacean disappeared and reappeared as the waves rose and fell, showing its black back like a rock in open sea.

The islet resembles, with a most deceiving likeness, an enormous cetacean, whose head dominates the waves at a height of twenty yards.

"So, Mr. Naturalist," Ned Land continued in a bantering tone, "you'll just keep on believing in the existence of some enormous cetacean .