Clinging to the stempost, Ned Land thrust his harpoon again and again into the gigantic animal, which imbedded its teeth in our gunwale and lifted the longboat out of the water as a lion would lift a deer.
Ez a csónak körül futó habvédőbe vájta fogait, s mint oroszlán az őzikét, felemelte a vízről a csónakot.