He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures fought, and his first experience taught him an unforgetable
lesson. It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would
not have lived to profit by it. Curly was the victim.
In one of the mighty triumphs given to a Roman general upon
his entering the world's capital, the bones of a whale, brought
all the way from the Syrian coast, were the most
conspicuous object in the cymballed procession.
Oh, God! to sail with such a heathen crew that have small
touch of human mothers in them! Whelped somewhere by
the sharkish sea. The white whale is their demigorgon.
for of the many Southland dogs he had known, not one
had shown up worthily in camp and on trail. They were all
too soft, dying under the toil, the frost, and starvation.
romanticism or realism