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Bringing the blue whale to the station . . . . .138 



A blue whale at Aikawa, Japan . . . . . .141 



An eighty-two foot blue whale at Vancouver Island . . .142 

 The open mouth of a blue whale . . . . . . .144 



The upper jaw of a blue whale, showing the mat of hairlike 



bristles on the inner edges of the baleen plates . . .145 

 Posterior view of a blue whale on the slip at Aikawa, Japan . 149 

 The flipper of a humpback whale . . . . . .150 



After the humpback's flipper has been stripped of blubber . .151 

 The folds on the throat of a finback whale . . . .152 



A cross section of the folds on the breast of a humpback whale . 154 

 The eye and ear of a blue whale . . . . . 155 



The skull of an eighty-foot blue whale, the skeleton of which was 



sent to the American Museum of Natural History from Japan 157 

 "The finback whale is the greyhound of the sea . . . for its beauti- 

 ful slender body is built like a racing yacht and the animal can 

 surpass the speed of the fastest ocean steamship" . .159 

 "I was standing on the bridge with the camera focused and pressed 



the button as they rose to the surface" . . . .160 



"An instant later came the crash of the harpoon gun and the 

 nearest whale, throwing its flukes and half its body out of 

 the water, turned head down in a long dive" . . .162 

 The finback whale reaches a length of about seventy-five feet . 163 

 "I had climbed to the barrel at the masthead . . . and was watch- 

 ing the little pram as it neared the dying finback" . .165 

 Marked with a flag and left to float until the end of the day's hunt 166 

 The whale is made fast to the bow by a heavy chain and the 



ship starts on the long tow to the station . . . .167 



"Sorenson hesitated, swung the gun a little to one side and fired" 170 

 Bringing in a finback . . . . . . . . .171 



A finback lying in the water at Aikawa just before it is "cut in" 172 

 Drawing up a finback at Aikawa, Japan . . . . .173 



The long slender body of a finback lying on its side; the outer 



edges of the whalebone plates in the mouth are well shown 175 

 The spout of a finback whale . . . . . . . . 177 



A finback whale "sounding" or taking the "big dive" . .179 

 When sounding the finback sinks lower and lower until the dor- 

 sal fin disappears; this is the last part of the body to leave 

 the surface . . . . . . . . . . 180 



A finback taking an "intermediate" or "surface" dive . . .182 

 The upper jaw of a finback whale, showing the bristles on the in- 

 ner edges of the baleen plates . . . . . .184 



The side view of a model of a gray whale in the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History prepared under the direction of the 

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