The cachelot seemed to be attacked by two powerful confederates, acting in concert.

The cachelot has no baleen but it furnishes spermaceti.

The Greenland, or right whale, is no longer plentiful, but the cachelot and other species have become wonderfully common of late years.

While thus engaged I was startled by seeing an enormous cachelot, (the sperm-whale), suddenly break the water within fifteen yards of the boat.

There was a peculiarity about these cachelots that I failed to mention.

Frank T. Bullen's "Cruise of the Cachelot Round the World After Sperm Wales."