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chapter-037		chapter-037			.txt	text/plain	2635	63	54	But this custom has now become obsolete; turn we then to the one proper mast-head, that of a whale-ship at sea. When Captain Sleet in person stood his mast-head in this crow's nest of his, he tells us that he always had a rifle with him (also fixed in the rack), together with a powder flask and shot, for the purpose of popping off the stray narwhales, or vagrant sea unicorns infesting those waters; for you cannot successfully shoot at them from the deck owing to the resistance of the water, but to shoot down upon them is a very different thing.	cache/chapter-037.txt	txt/chapter-037.txt