From the same cause, the idea of a floating hull of an enormous wreck was given up:
discontinue
But the weather was good!!! This pursuit lasted nearly three-quarters of an hour, without the frigate gaining two yards on the cetacean it : The warmest partisans of the enterprise now became its most ardent detractors? I wriggled myself quickly to the top of the being, or object, half out of the water, which served us for a refuge!!!