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Rh fond of accompanying a ship, even for many miles. We have often been amused with them. No sooner do we discern a "shoal" or "school" of Dolphins frolicking, perhaps a mile or two distant, than we see them having caught sight of the ship, come trooping down with the velocity of

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the wind, impelled by curiosity to discover what being of monstrous bulk thus invades their domain. Arrived, they displayed their agility in a thousand graceful motions, now leaping with curved bodies many feet into the air, then darting through a wave with incredible velocity, leaving a slender wake of whitening foam under the water; now the thin dorsal fin only is exposed, cutting the surface like a knife; then the broad and mus-