WHALING AND BEAR-HUNTING 79 



great a hole and allowed the flashes to miss their anchoring 

 hold. It was bad luck for us and for the whale. Our 

 leviathan disappeared and we wound up, very melancholy. 1 



View of Whale under Water 



A slight consolation was that a neighbouring whaler was 

 seen to fire at another whale ; we heard the boom and saw 

 the smoke, and nothing more she had made a clean miss ! 

 probably owing to the roughness of the sea. 



1 We picked up a dead whale two days later and we hope it was the 

 whale we lost. 



