Moby Dick. Герман Мелвилл

Palace, as his bold ship sailed down the Thames; ‘when Sir Martin returned from that voyage,’ saith Black Letter, ‘on bended knees he presented to her highness a prodigious long horn of the Narwhale, which for a long period after hung in the castle at Windsor.’ An Irish author avers that the Earl of Leicester, on bended knees, did likewise present to her highness another horn, pertaining to a land beast of the unicorn nature.