Sailing Alone Around the World

by Joshua Slocum

have seen, on the other hand, whales swimming in a circle around a school of herrings, and with mighty exertion "bunch-ing" them together in a whirlpool set in motion by their flukes, and when the small fry were all whirled nicely together, one or the other of the leviathans, lunging through the center with open jaws, take in a boat-load or so at a single mouthful.