Very savage. He is only found, I think, in the Pacific. He is somewhat
larger than the Huzza Porpoise, but much of the same general make.
Provoke him, and he will buckle to a shark. I have lowered for him many
times, but never yet saw him captured.
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Moby Dick; Or, The Whale · BOOK III. (_Duodecimo_), CHAPTER II. (_Algerine Porpoise_).—A pirate.
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