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The next day the weather continued fine. The ship passed schools of porpoises sporting in the sun and splashing the water like swimming children at play.
Captain Bradstreet told Weezy that these porpoises were sometimes called fish-hogs. They not only drive shoals of herrings and salmon and mackerel before them, but they sometimes dive to the bottom of the sea and root for eels and sea-worms, as pigs on land root for acorns buried under leaves.