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good sportsmanship. Quiet, able, and rugged they are — and 

 dead shots ! Their prize records are never much concerned with 

 the amount of oil they have brought in or with the sums of 

 money they have made thereby; their talk and their pride are 

 concerned rather with their marksmanship ; they seldom miss a 

 whale. And he who has fewest such misses against his name, he 

 is indeed a prince over princes. 



Whaling, in the earliest days of the industry the world over, 

 was pursued from the shore. In this, the 20th Century, by a 

 curious cycle which economic conditions and mechanical inven- 

 tion have largely caused, it has returned to shore whaling. 



In the different phases of this newly completed cycle wars and 

 peace are reflected. It has progressed by centuries of grinding 

 labour and daring projects; it is replete with suffering and with 

 adventure. It is often sordid in detail, but as a whole, it is 

 worthy of an epic. The story of whaling is not the property 

 of any one country, or of any one continent, but of the world. 



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