The only baleen whales available which Chaplain could have had any chance of holding were the slow-swimming nordcapers and these were scarce in Irish waters.

Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: — Such are we now.

The plot of the Atlantic currents and Atlantic winds is almost, though not quite, coincident.

If, on the other hand, we drifted antarctically, we ran the risk of being hopelessly frozen up, in regions far beyond the haunts of any human creature.