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| 22 | 179 | One of the View more quotes about large">large flippers struck me, buffeting me, spinning me and the vessel about, the animal then slipping free of the shaft of the lance. |
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| 22 | 176 | I thrust the lance point into the rushing, extended, double-fanged jaws and it penetrated through the side of the mouth, tearing, the animal's face a yard up the shaft. |
| 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. |