Augiisil, ISUN. 



A Second Whale Caj/fund. 



careened, and was, at last, tlirown completely on her beam ends, the 

 explanation of which was that the whale had rnshed along' with the 

 boat on its back. It was no wonder that at the time every man thought 

 himself lost. But before long the boat righted, the oars on one side 

 being cracked; one of them, destroyed. 



It was an hour from the first blow until the whale spouted blood 

 and ended the struggle 'Svitli thunder-claps from its broad tail upon 

 the waters." The natives on shore, while watching the fight, went 

 through an cm-koot-wg performance for its successful issue. They 

 aided in hauling the whale up on land, and began their feast from it 

 that night at supper. Two days later, the whole company of men, 

 women, and children, numbering more than fifty, went hard to work 

 making deposits, when the women cut up and carried in their hands 

 masses of the meat; the men dragged or carried on their shoulders 



