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Whiteness of the Whale.

Most famous in our Western annals and Indian traditions is that of the White Steed of the Prairies; a magnificent milk-white charger, large-eyed, small-headed, bluff-chested, and with the dignity of a thousand monarchs in his lofty, overscorning carriage.  He was the elected Xerxes of vast herds of wild horses, whose pastures in those days were only fenced by the