Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1896 — Passed a School of Whales. [ARTICLE]

Passed a School of Whales.

The unusual sight was witnessed last Friday off Cape Hatteras by Captain. Doyle, of the British steamship Bendo, of a school of large sperm whales disporting themselves at sea, says the Philadelphia Record. They were moving along at a slow, steady pace, and in the distance appeared like rocks on an unknown shore. A slight breeze springing up. a number of waterspouts appeared. The whales started in pursuit of these, evidently desiring to have the spouts break over them. As long ns the Bendo vras in sight of them the big fish could be seen playing about like children in a bathtub. Captain Doyle said that there was a fortune assured for any whaling vessel that might happen to strike the school.