But besides all this ruthless warfare10 carried on inevitably11 because without it all must die of hunger, there were other causes of conflict, matters of high policy and more intricate motive12 than just the blind all-compelling pressure of hunger. The glowing surface of that morning sea was suddenly disturbed simultaneously13 at many points, and like ascending14 incense180 the bushy breathings of some scores of whales became visible. Perfectly15 at their ease since their instincts assured them that from this silent sea their only enemy was absent, they lay in unstudied grace about the sparkling waters, the cows and youngsters gambolling16 happily together in perfect freedom from care. Hither they had come from one of their richest feeding-grounds, where all had laid in a stock of energy sufficient to carry them half round the globe without weariness. So they were fat with a great richness, strong with incalculable strength, and because of these things they were now about to settle a most momentous17 question. Apart from the main gathering18 of females and calves19 by the space of about a mile lay five individuals, who, from their enormous superiority in size, no less than the staid gravity of their demeanour, were evidently the adult males of the school. They lay almost motionless in the figure of a baseless triangle whereof the apex20 was a magnificent bull over seventy feet in length, with a back like some keelless ship bottom up, and a head huge and square as a railway car. He it was who first broke the stillness that reigned21. Slowly raising his awful front with its down-hanging, twenty-foot lower jaw22 exposing two gleaming rows of curved teeth, he said, “Children, ye have chosen the time and the place for your impeachment23 of my overlordship, and I am ready. Well, I wot that ye do but as our changeless laws decree, that the choice of your actions rests not with yourselves, that although ye feel lords of yourselves and desirous of ruling all your fellows, it is but under the compelling pressure of our hereditary181 instincts. Yet remember, I pray you, before ye combine to drive me from among ye, for how many generations I have led the school, how wisely I have chosen our paths, so that we are still an unbroken family as we have been for more than a hundred seasons. And if ye must bring your powers to test now, remember, too, that I am no weakling, no dotard weary of rule, but mightiest24 among all our people, conqueror25 in more than a thousand battles, wise with the accumulated knowledge of a hundred generations of monarchy26. Certainly the day of my displacement28 must come; who should know that better than I? but methinks it has not yet dawned, and I would not have ye lightly pit your immature29 strength against mine, courting inevitable30 destruction. Ponder well my words, for I have spoken.”
A solemn hush31 ensued, just emphasized by the slumbrous sound of the sparkling wavelets lapping those mighty32 forms as they lay all motionless and apparently inert33. Yet it had been easy to see how along each bastion like flank the rolling tendons, each one a cable in itself, were tense and ready for instantaneous action, how the great muscle mounds34 were hardened around the gigantic masses of bone, and the flukes, each some hundred feet in area, did not yield to the heaving bosom35 of the swell36, but showed an almost imperceptible vibration37 as of a fucus frond38 in a tide rip. After a perfect silence of some fifteen minutes an answer came—from the youngest of the group, who lay remote from the chief. “We have heard, O king, the words of wisdom, and our hearts rejoice. Truly we182 have been of the fortunate in this goodly realm, and ingrates indeed should we be had our training under so terrible a champion been wasted upon us. But therefore it is that we would forestall39 the shame that should overtake us did we wait until thy forces had waned40 and that all-conquering might had dwindled41 into dotage42 ere we essayed to put thy teaching into practice. Since thy deposition43 from this proud place must be, to whose forces could’st thou more honourably44 yield than to ours, the young warriors45 who have learned of thee all we know, and who will carry on the magnificent traditions thou hast handed down to us in a manner worthy47 of our splendid sire! And if we be slain48, as well may be, remembering with whom we do battle, the greater our glory, the greater thine also.”
A deep murmur49 like the bursting of a tidal wave against the sea-worn lava50 rocks of Ascension marked the satisfaction of the group at this exposition of their views, and as if actuated by one set of nerves the colossal51 four swung round shoulder to shoulder, and faced the ocean monarch27. Moving not by a barnacle’s breadth, he answered, “It is well spoken, oh my children, ye are wiser than I. And be the issue what it will, all shall know that the royal race still holds. As in the days when our fathers met and slew52 the slimy dragons of the pit, and, unscared by fathom-long claws or ten-ply coats of mail, dashed them in pieces and chased them from the blue deep they befouled, so to-day when the world has grown old, and our ancient heritage has sorely shrunken, our warfare shall still be the mightiest among created things.”
Hardly had the leviathan uttered the last word when, with a roar like Niagara bursting its bonds in spring, he hurled53 his vast bulk headlong upon the close gathered band of his huge offspring. His body was like a bent54 bow, and its recoil55 tore the amazed sea into deep whirls and eddies56 as if an island had foundered57. Full upon the foremost one he fell, and deep answered unto deep with the impact. That awful blow dashed its recipient58 far into the soundless depths while the champion sped swiftly forward on his course, unable to turn until his impetus59 was somewhat spent. Before he could again face his foes61, the three were upon him, smiting62 with Titanic63 fluke strokes, circling beneath him with intent to catch the down-hanging shaft64 of his lower jaw, rising swiftly end on beneath the broad spread of his belly65, leaping high into the bright air and falling flatlings upon his wide back. The tormented66 sea foamed68 and hissed69 in angry protest, screaming sea-birds circled low around the conflict, ravening70 sharks gathered from unknown distances, scenting71 blood, and all the countless72 tribes of ocean waited aghast. But after the first red fury had passed came the wariness73, came the fruitage of all those years of training, all the accumulated instincts of ages to supplement blind brutal74 force with deep laid schemes of attack and defence. As yet the three survivors75 were but slightly injured, for they had so divided their attack even in that first great onset76, that the old warrior46 could not safely single out one for destruction. Now the youngest, the spokesman, glided77 to the front of his brethren, and faced his waiting sire—
“What! so soon weary. Thou art older than we thought. Truly this battle hath been delayed too long. We looked for a fight that should be remembered for many generations, and behold——” Out of the corner of his eye he saw the foam67 circles rise as the vast tail of the chief curved inward for the spring, and he, the scorner, launched himself backwards78 a hundred fathoms79 at a bound. After him, leaping like any salmon80 in a spate81, came the terrible old warrior, the smitten82 waves boiling around him as he dashed them aside in his tremendous pursuit. But herein the pursued had the advantage, for it is a peculiarity83 of the sperm84 whale that while he cannot see before him, his best arc of vision is right astern. So that the pursuer must needs be guided by sound and the feel of the water, and the very vigour85 of his chase was telling far more upon his vast bulk than upon the lither form of his flying enemy. In this matter the monarch’s wisdom was of no avail, for experience could not tell him how advancing age handicaps the strongest, and he wondered to find a numbness86 creeping along his spine—to feel that he was growing weary. And suddenly, with an eel-like movement the pursued one described a circle beneath the water, rising swift as a dolphin springs towards his pursuer, and dashing at the dangling87, gleaming jaw. These two great balks88 of jaw met in clashing contact, breaking off a dozen or so of the huge teeth, and ripping eight or ten feet of the gristly muscle from the throat of the aggressor. But hardly had they swung clear of each other than the other two were fresh upon the scene, and while the youngest185 one rested, they effectually combined to prevent their fast-weakening foe60 from rising to breathe. No need now for them to do more, for the late enormous expenditure89 of force had so drained his vast body of its prime necessity that the issue of the fight was but a question of minutes. Yet still he fought gallantly90, though with lungs utterly91 empty—all the rushing torrent92 of his blood growing fetid for lack of vitalising air. At last, with a roar as of a cyclone93 through his head, he turned on his side and yielded to his triumphant95 conquerors96, who drew off and allowed him to rise limply to the now quiet sea-surface. For more than an hour he lay there prone97, enduring all the agony of his overthrow98, and seeing far before him the long, lonely vista99 of his solitary100 wanderings, a lone94 whale driven from his own, and nevermore to rule again.
Meanwhile the three had departed in search of their brother, smitten so felly early in the fight that he had not since joined them. When they found that which had been him it was the centre of an innumerable host of hungry things that fled to air or sea-depths at their approach. A glance revealed the manner of his end—a broken back, while already, such had been the energy of the smaller sea people, the great framework of his ribs101 was partly laid bare. They made no regrets, for the doing of useless things finds no place in their scheme of things. Then the younger said—
“So the question of overlordship lies between us three, and I am unwilling102 that it should await settlement. I claim the leadership, and am prepared here and now to maintain my right.”
This bold assertion had its effect upon the two hearers, who, after a long pause, replied—
“We accept, O king, fully103 and freely, until the next battle-day arrives, when the succession must be maintained by thee in ancient form.”
So the matter was settled, and proudly the young monarch set off to rejoin the waiting school. Into their midst he glided with an air of conscious majesty, pausing in the centre to receive the homage104 and affectionate caresses105 of the harem. No questions were asked as to the whereabouts of the deposed106 sovereign, nor as to what had become of the missing member of the brotherhood107. These are things that do not disturb the whale-people, who in truth have a sufficiency of other matters to occupy their thoughts besides those inevitable changes that belong to the settled order of things. The recognition complete, the new leader glided out from the midst of his people, and pointing his massive front to the westward108 moved off at a stately pace, on a straight course for the coast of Japan.
Long, long lay the defeated one, motionless and alone. His exertions109 had been so tremendous that every vast muscle band seemed strained beyond recovery, while the torrent of his blood, befouled by his long enforced stay beneath the sea, did not readily regain111 its normally healthful flow. But on the second day he roused himself, and raising his mighty head swept the unbroken circle of the horizon to satisfy himself that he was indeed at last a lone whale. Ending his earnest scrutiny112 he milled round to the southward and with set purpose and steady fluke-beat started for187 the Aucklands. On his journey he passed many a school or smaller “pod” of his kind, but in some mysterious manner the seal of his loneliness was set upon him, so that he was shunned113 by all. In ten days he reached his objective, ten days of fasting, and impelled114 by fierce hunger ventured in closely to the cliffs, where great shoals of fish, many seals, with an occasional porpoise115, came gaily116 careering down the wide-gaping white tunnel of his throat into the inner darkness of dissolution. It was good to be here, pleasant to feel once more that unquestioned superiority over all things, and swiftly the remembrance of his fall faded from the monster’s mind. By day he wandered lazily, enjoying the constant easy procession of living food down his ever-open gullet; by night he wallowed sleepily in the surf-torn margin117 of those jagged reefs. And thus he came to enjoy the new phase of existence, until one day he rose slowly from a favourite reef-patch to feel a sharp pang118 shoot through his wide flank. Startled into sudden, violent activity, he plunged119 madly around in the confined area of the cove110 wherein he lay in the vain endeavour to rid himself of the smart. But he had been taken at a disadvantage, for in such shallow waters there was no room to manœuvre his vast bulk, and his wary120 assailants felt that in spite of his undoubted vigour and ferocity he would be an easy prey121. But suddenly he headed instinctively122 for the open sea at such tremendous speed that the two boats attached to him were but as chips behind him. He reached the harbour’s mouth, and bending, swiftly sought the depths. Unfortunately for188 him a huge pinnacle123 of rock rose sheer from the sea bed some hundred fathoms below, and upon this he hurled himself headlong with such fearful force that his massive neck was broken. And next day a weary company of men were toiling124 painfully to strip from his body its great accumulation of valuable oil, and his long career was ended.
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chamber
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placid
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warfare
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motive
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perfectly
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momentous
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gathering
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calves
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apex
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reigned
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mightiest
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monarchy
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monarch
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mighty
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vibration
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frond
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forestall
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waned
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dwindled
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deposition
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honourably
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warriors
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warrior
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worthy
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slain
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murmur
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lava
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colossal
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slew
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hurled
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bent
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recoil
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eddies
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foundered
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recipient
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foe
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belly
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