From the Ocean Almanac, "There is also an old story about Captain Pollard told on Nantucket. One of the relatives of a whaleman (it never id's the uncle) who had been in the captain's boat supposedly met him in the street & asked him if he knew his uncle. "Did I know him!" Pollard exclaimed. "Hell, man, I ate him".

A bit of Nantucket folklore or gospel, I don't know?

The Ocean Almanac also names the whale as Mocha Dick first sighted off Mocha Island near the Chilean coast from which the white whale took his name, whom it also says fought his last of many battles in Aug. of Aug. 1859 with a Swedish whaler off the Brazilian Banks. According to the log he measured 110' & weighed a ton for each swimming foot (?), was taken without much struggle, dying of old age, blind in the right eye, his head a mass of scars, 8 teeth broken & the rest worn down. The logs of 7 other whaler's (Desmond- English, Sarepta-Russian, Johnny Day-?, Crieff-Glasgow, Yankee-New Bedford, Dudley-English) has Mocha Dick attacking them.

Barry