52 WHALING AND BEAR-HUNTING 



to get my camera, but what a scene, say, for a cinematograph 

 figures on deck swaying at the halyards and figures clinging 

 pick-a-back to the sail on the boom ! 



Oh, it was a beast of a day ! even though the wave effects 

 were fine ; of about five or six I thought each would be our 

 last. But we lay so far over with gunwales under so that we 

 simply shot to leeward with a heavy sea, so there was much 

 " keel water " which, rising from under us to windward, 

 seemed to prevent the waves breaking over our beam. 



The crew are all taking turns at air-pumping ; they kept 

 at it all day yesterday, and till one o'clock to-day, and we 

 are soon going to see if the pressure will start the engine it 

 is rather critical. 



