HUNTING THE NARWHAL AND THE WHALE. 



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WHALE DIVING. 



quite contrary to their calculation, had not the least i, 



of running away, but only dived to some depth, the boats 

 passing away over them, and then rose again very nearly on 

 the same spot where they had disappeared. The three other 

 boats, seeing the spouts behind them, turned round as quickly 

 as they could, and the second boat-header, also an American, 

 got fast to another whale. 



During this and the next day our ship lay to, taking the 

 whales alongside, and cutting them up ; no look-out even 

 being kept in the top before the carcasses had been cleared 

 away from her sides. 





