This picture, taken by Roy C. Andrews, Esq., of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, on his last whaling expedition, shows a bomb exploding in a whale. 



WHALING IMPLEMENTS. 



Figure 1. Harpoon with one barb. Figure 2. Harpoon with two barbs. Figure 3. The 

 " toggle iron." Figure 4. The lance for killing the whale by reaching its " life." Figure 5. A 

 spade used in small boats for making holes in the blubber after capture and on the whaleship 

 for cutting the blubber from the body of the whale. Figure 6. A bomb lance. Figure 7. The 

 " boarding knife " used for making holes in the strips of blubber for the hoisting hooks. 

 Figure 8. The dipper used to bail oil out of the " case," or head, and from the try-works into 

 the cooler. Figure 9. A piece of whalebone as it comes from the whale. Figure 10. A strainer 

 used for draining the scraps from the oil. 



