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| 22 | 180 | It circled the View more quotes about craft">craft its mouth hot with blood flowing into the cold water. |
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| 22 | 177 | It reared six feet out of the water vertically beside the slender hide vessel. |
| 22 | 178 | With two hands on the shaft I forced the twisting body to fall away from the craft. |
| 22 | 179 | One of the large flippers struck me, buffeting me, spinning me and the vessel about, the animal then slipping free of the shaft of the lance. |
| 22 | 180 | It circled the craft its mouth hot with blood flowing into the cold water. |
| 22 | 181 | It was then I retrieved the harpoon again from the water by its line, for it had been once more struck away from me. |
| 22 | 182 | I set the light harpoon into the notch on the throwing board and, even mittened, an instant before the beast turned toward me, grunted, snapping the throwing board forward and downward, speeding the shaft toward the enraged animal. |
| 22 | 183 | The bone head, vanishing, sunk into its withers and it snapped downward, diving, bubbles breaking up to the surface, and swift blood. |