Mocha Dick was a legendary white whale said to have killed more than thirty men and attacked several ships in the 1800s.
His story was told in The Knickerbocker Magazine in 1839.
Melville’s Moby-Dick of 1851 may have been influenced by the story.
Who was Mocha Dick?
by Pamela Landy · Filed Under: Literature
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