of the whale in Mocha Dick, or The White Whale of the Pacific: A Leaf from a Manuscript Journal, printed in The Knickerbocker in 1839. Mocha Dick was part of the inspiration behind Herman Melville's novel, Moby-Dick (1851).

History

Mocha Dick survived many skirmishes (by Reynolds' account at least 100) with whalers before he was eventually killed. He was large and powerful, capable

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