"The pursuit of this animal was without restraint. A month before she entered Lancaster Sound in 1823, the Cumbrian killed a huge Greenland right, a 57-foot female, in Davis Strait. They came upon her while she was asleep in light ice. Awakened by their approach, she swam slowly once around the ship and then put her head calmly to its bow and began to push. She pushed the ship backward for two minutes before the transfixed crew reacted with harpoons. The incident left the men unsettled. They flinched against such occasional eeriness in their work." (p. 4)
from Barry Lopez's "Arctic Dreams"
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