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Not far from Malbaie, he saw the so-called "porpoises," or white whales, (beluga, French, _marsouin_) that still disport themselves in great numbers in these waters, come puffing to the surface and writhe their whole length into view like miniature sea-serpents.

A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong

The Colonel was greatly excited about it, and vowed it was the largest salmon seen in the river for ten years -- "a whale, I tell you, a regular _marsouin_!" he cried, waving his hands in the air.

Days Off And Other Digressions Henry Van Dyke 1892

_marsouin_, the English beluga, a word of Russian origin, signifying white.

A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong

{58} [Compare French _marsouin_ (= German _meer-schwein_), “sea-pig”, the dolphin; Breton _mor-houc’h_; Irish _mucc mara_, “pig of the sea”, the dolphin (W. Stokes, _Irish Glossaries_, p. 118); French _truye de mer_ (Cotgrave); old English _brun-swyne_ (_Prompt.

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846