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the animal's mouth by air pumped into the body to keep it 



afloat 68 



Pulling the barnacles off a humpback whale . . . .71 



A humpback partly in the water at the station in North Japan . 73 

 The result of a single day's hunt . . . . . . .76 



"In some instances the whales are drawn out upon the slip in the 



Norwegian way" ......... 78 



"She was listing far to starboard and we could see the huge flukes 



of a blue whale . . . waving at her bow" .... 80 



"A steel wire cable was looped about the tail just in front of the 

 flukes, and the huge carcass drawn slowly upward over the 

 end of the wharf" . . . . . . . .81 



"Section by section the carcass was cut apart and drawn upward 

 to fall into the hands of the men on the wharf and be sliced 

 into great blocks two or three feet square" . . 83 



"Transverse incisions were made in the portion of the body re- 

 maining in the water, a hook was fastened to a blanket piece 

 and as the blubber was torn off by the winch the carcass 

 rolled over and over" ........ 85 



The inner side of a strip of blubber as it is being torn from a 



whale 87 



"What . . . remains is first tried out to extract the oil, then 

 chipped by means of hand knives, and dried in the sun for 



fertilizer 88 



Whale meat on the washing platforms ready to be sent to market 89 

 The whaling station at Aikawa, North Japan . . . .92 



A sei whale on the slip at Aikawa ...... 93 



The spout of a sei whale ........ 94 



"He . . . would sometimes swim just under the surface with only 



the tip of the dorsal fin exposed" 95 



"I pressed the button of the camera as the broad back came into 



view" ........... 97 



The sei whale 98 



"The winch was then started and the whale drawn slowly toward 



the ship" .......... 99 



A sei whale at Aikawa, Japan 101 



" 'There's a whale dead ahead. He spouted six times' " . .102 

 "The click of the camera and the crash of the gun sounding at 



almost the same instant" . . . . . . .103 



"We were just off Kinka-san at half-past six, and by seven were 



blowing the whistle at the entrance to the bay" . . .105 

 "We hunted them for two hours, trying first one and then the 

 other they had separated without once getting near enough 

 even for pictures" . . . .107 



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