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CHAPTER X 



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Better Luck Spectacular Effect Whales and Rainbow On 

 Chase The Sea teems with Life Our Chance comes 

 Heart-stopping Excitement A Close Shave In Tow 

 Seventy Tons in the Basket Ten Whales in a Day 

 Vexatious Government Restriction Uses of Whale Meat, 

 Oil, and some Values in s. d. . . . 80 



CHAPTER XI 



Whaling has its seamy Side A Whale Hunt Colours of the 

 Sea and Whales In Tow Whale is killed Another 

 Whale " Thrilling Dangers" of Whaling and Excep- 

 tional Behaviour of Whales Dangers of Whaling 

 Whale Steak Whale Guano as Fertiliser Lancing a 

 Whale Exquisite Colour of Whales Pedigree of Whales 

 Rolling Home, Two Whales in Tow . . .85 



CHAPTER XII 



Back to the St Ebba on West of Shetland Fine Weather No 

 Competition All Hands busy but no Whales Our Last 

 Night in Port Out to the West The Ramna Stacks as 

 Targets for H.M.S. A Sailing Ship oncfe more . . 97 



CHAPTER XIII 



A Fine Weather Chantey " California "Back to Lochend 

 Cormorant Hash Up Anchor and leave the Shetlands 

 Cape Wrath Lewis Dunvegan Picking up Lights 

 South to Tobermory Our West Coast on a Dark Night 

 Ardnamurchan and Coll Morar, the Most Beautiful 

 Country in th,e World Drimnin next, Glen Morven 

 Tobermory Relatives and the Lady of Aros Castle . 102 



CHAPTER XIV 



The British Fleet at Oban A Union Jack made (in Norway 

 St George versus Imperial Idea Violation of British 

 Constitution John Knox a Sunday Golfer Wives at Sea 

 A Yarn A Spy in Tobermory The Tobermory Police- 

 man 110 



CHAPTER XV 



Harvest Moon Across the Irish Sea Belfast Origin of our 

 Name Scotland Erin go Bragh What brought us to 

 Ulster Day and the Covenant The Crew's Adventures 

 Greenhorns in Ballymacarack Street Down Channel for 

 the Azores Spun Yarn Deep-sea Swell Inspection of 

 Rifles ... 115 



