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CHAPTEK V 



Leave South Norway for the Shetlands Anchors foul At 

 Sea at Last Down the Skagerak in Calm Picking up 

 Lights Unpromising Weather Half a Gale Digging 

 into same Hole Full Gale St Ebba a Dry Ship Hove 

 to A Sick Crew Our Cook Engine will not start- 

 Drifting across North Sea to Yorkshire Coast Recollec- 

 tion of a Previous Whaling Voyage All Hands to Air 

 Pump . . . ... 45 



CHAPTEK VI 



Drifting Gale falling Engines start Set Sail The Name 

 St Ebba We put aside our Plans for Arctic Whaling 

 Fair Isle Light Sumburgh Light Brassey and Lerwick 

 Quiet and Greyness of Lerwick Shetland Anaemic . 53 



CHAPTEK VII 



The Waiting Part of Whaling Before "grassing a Fish" 

 Waiting in Japanese Seas Poultry on a Whaler Small 

 Whale Yarn Tied up in Lerwick " Customs " on Board 

 " Tearing Tartan "Entangled in Red Tape Are we 

 Pirates ? A Mass of Fish and Cormorants Shetlands 

 held in Pawn A Burly Type of Old Whaler About the 

 Old Dundee Whaling Captains The Registrar braves 

 a Storm Herring Catchers versus Whalers British 

 Restrictions on Whaling Industry . . . .57 



CHAPTER VIII 



Visit to R. C. Haldane at Lochend Return to St Ebba 

 Captain Henriksen entertains the Board of Trade In- 

 spector Registers our Tonnage at Sixty-nine Tons A 

 Sunday Saturnalia of Shag Shooting How to cook Shag 

 (Cormorants) The Quiet of Lochend Haldane's White 

 House, Peat Fire and Illuminated Missals Stories Our 

 Shetland Whaling Station . . . .64 



CHAPTER IX 



Extracts from Whaling Log and Sketch-Book In Shetland 

 Sea-Trout in the Voe The Whaler Haldane calls for the 

 Writer The Forty-Mile Limit Seals and Birds The 

 Modern Whale Gun Difficulty of shooting it Various 

 Whales Their Names Idyllic Sea A Bad Day for 

 Whaling Hunting Freedom of the Sea Try to blow 

 up Mackerel Sabbath Calm No Whales Fascination 

 of watching for a Blow Hark back to Shetland New 

 Departure A Bag of Wind Across the Limit again 

 Fine Weather ^Esthetics on a Whaler A Blast, Whales 

 at last ! A Rough Chase A Bull's Eye at Forty Yards 

 Lost ! 68 



