# Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

## BOOK III. (_Duodecimo_), CHAPTER II. (_Algerine Porpoise_).—A pirate.

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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.