Crossword-Solution: CACHALOTS 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

CHAPTER XII CACHALOTS AND WHALES During the nights of the 13th and 14th of March, the _Nautilus_ returned to its southerly course.

These creatures are only balaeaopterons, provided with dorsal fins; and, like the cachalots, are generally much smaller than the Greenland whale.” “Ah!” exclaimed the Canadian, whose eyes had never left the ocean, “they are coming nearer; they are in the same water as the _Nautilus_.” Then, returning to the conversation, he said: “You spoke of the cachalot as a small creature.

They have plenty of natural enemies—cachalots, swordfish, and sawfish—without you troubling them.” The Captain was right.

One could judge beforehand that the cachalots would be victorious, not only because they were better built for attack than their inoffensive adversaries, but also because they could remain longer under water without coming to the surface.

For there were no whales in the old chalk ocean; but our modern oceans are full of cachalots, porpoises, dolphins, swimming in shoals round any ship; and their bones and teeth, and still more their ear-bones, will drop to the bottom as they die, and be found, ages hence, in the mud which the live atomies make, along with wrecks of mighty ships "Great anchors, heaps of pearl," and all that man has lost in the deep seas.