Jeremiah N. Reynolds (1799-1858), an American newspaper editor,
lecturer, explorer and author who became an influential advocate
for scientific expeditions. Reynolds gathered first-hand
observations of Mocha Dick, an albino sperm whale off Chile who
bedeviled a generation of whalers for thirty years before
succumbing to one. Mocha Dick survived many skirmishes (by some
accounts at least 100) with whalers before he was eventually
killed. In May 1839, The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly
Magazine published Reynolds' "Mocha Dick: Or the White Whale of the
Pacific," the inspiration for Herman Melville's 1851 novel
Moby-Dick. In Reynolds' account, Mocha Dick was killed in 1838,
after he appeared to come to the aid of a distraught cow whose calf
had just been slain by the whalers. His body was 70 feet long and
yielded 100 barrels of oil, along with some ambergris. He also had
several harpoons in his body.
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