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(•red iiitit ;i i^rcjit IimII of iiiarinc lift'. 

 .Mr. Amlrrws did his pMii ; llu' inntfriid 

 lias liccii Itrotiiiht l(\i:'ctlicr. Init. alas, it 

 ivsls in uri'at cralos and dari'; sloragc 

 r(it»nis await in,<; the coniinii" of morr 

 ]ii'acffnl and [irosprroiis days when 

 these lexiathans shall he ualhei-ed lo- 

 gctlier i'or the edilication (d' llir puhlic 

 ^feanwliile wi" liave his hook to kc('|> up 

 our interest in the suhject. 



In this hook Ml-, .\iidre\vs takes lis 

 from Loni:- l>laiid lo the Pacific coast 

 and Japan, with side excursions to 

 .\la>ka. in'rino- Sea. and the St. Law- 

 reiiee. hut most of liis studies were 

 pretty evenly divided hetwiH'U Vancou- 

 ver and Osliiina. 



Mr. .Vndrcws has participated in 

 many a wliah^ hunt : he was almost '^'in 

 at the death" of one oi' the last whales 

 taken at Ainagansett where whaling is, 

 or was until the whales gave out, car- 

 ried on exactly as it was at its birth- 

 place on the Basque coast a thousand 

 years ago. And yet we call this a pro- 

 gressive age. 



A\'c arc told how whales feed and 

 play, how they care for and nurse their 

 voung. of their ciiciiiies and diseases. 

 We are shown many ])hases of tlie cap- 

 ture of whales hy modern methods ; 

 learn how they are ])ursued. killed and 

 utilized, turned into oil and fertilizer 

 or, as in Japan, sent to market to fur- 

 nish food for thousands — as is begin- 

 ning to be done here. And if, as a rule, 

 tlit> business-like methods of modern 

 whaling lack the excitement and dan- 

 gei- incident to the capture of the sperm 

 whale.— which, by the way is still pur- 

 sued and killed just as it was a century 

 ago, — there are yet occasions when 

 whaling by modern methods is suili- 

 cieiitly strenuous for the ordinary indi- 

 vidual. Such an incident was the chase 

 and capture of a great blue wOiale, which 

 lasted from sunrise to sunset: twice the 

 whale was struck and twice he escaped, 

 once by the breaking of the line which 

 .stands a strain of tweiit\ tons, and 

 when he was fiiiallv killed hv a third 



shot, the sjeamcr \\;i> i:;(i miles fr<nn 

 lutiue. 



If excilcmcnl i> ii>iiall\ lacking, 

 there is plciily of hard work and dis- 

 comforl. Iiiil a> a mailer of cinnpi'ii.-a- 

 tioii. i( is now pos>ilile id -ludy whales 

 as in'\er liefore, to pholdgrapli. meas- 

 ure, and examine ihem al leisure, so 

 that although the whales are rapidly 

 disa[)peariiig. we are getting to know 

 more and more about them. 



^Fr. Andi'cws" hook' is roiimleil (uit bv 

 chapters (Ml old-lime whaling, in which 

 we are told how the sperm whale, the 

 fiercest lighler of his race, was hunted 

 during what may be termed the golden 

 — in some cases most literally golden — 

 age of the whaling industry, and liow 

 the great but clum.sy howhead was 

 chased from Spitzbergen to (ircenland 

 and Bering Sea and then all but blotted 

 out of existence, and how his cousin, 

 the right wdiale, which was driven from 

 Spain and Nantucket into the far north, 

 has become a name only over most of 

 his former range. 



The smaller whales and jiorpoises are 

 not forgotten, and we read how the bot- 

 tlenose whales are taken in the Xorth 

 Sea and the porpoises off Hat t eras, 

 how the Indians chase the white whale 

 in the St. Lawrence, and how the stu- 

 pid blackfish are rounded up and driven 

 ashore on the Faroes and Cape Cod. 

 All these things, and many more, we 

 are told in Whale Ilunting with Gun 

 and Camera, supplemented by many pic- 

 tures of whales and whaling methods. 



With the exception of the few chap- 

 ters noted, this book is the record of 

 ])ersonal experiences, and Mr. Andrews 

 may say with ^neas— "all of which I 

 saw and a great part of which I was." 

 And it is only fair to i\[r. Andrews to 

 add that he tells his adventures more 

 modestly than did yEneas, who made 

 more of a to-do and got into more mis- 

 chief during a cruise over a small part 

 of the ^lediterranean than Slocum did 

 ill circumnavigating the glolie in a 



tWellt\-|on -loop. — V. A. IjI'C.\S. 



