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author from studies made in Korea . . . . .188 



A ventral view of the gray whale model . . . . .189 



The whaling station at Ulsan, Korea . . . . . .190 



"At the port bow hung the dark flukes of a whale, the sight of 



which made me breathe hard with excitement" . . .191 

 Cutting in a gray whale . . . . . . . 193 



"When the winch began slowly to lift the huge black body out 



of the water, a very short examination told me that the kaku 



kujira really was the long-lost gray whale" . . . .194 



Cutting through the body of a gray whale . . . . .198 



The posterior part of a gray whale ...... 200 



The flukes of a gray whale ........ 203 



A strip of blubber from the back of a gray whale with the short 



flipper at the end of it ....... 205 



Captain Melsom about to lance a gray whale from the pram . . 209 



After the death stroke 211 



"The killer is the wolf of the sea and like the land wolves hunts 



in packs of twenty or more individuals which will attack and 



devour almost anything that swims" . . . . .216 



A posterior view of a killer showing the high dorsal fin . .217 

 An anterior view of a killer ....... 222 



A sperm whale lying on the slip at Kyuquot, Vancouver Island . 224 

 Stripping the blubber from the head of a sperm whale . . 226 

 "The sperm . . . has from eighteen to twenty-five massive teeth on 



each side of the lower jaw; these fit into sockets in the upper 



jaw and assist in holding the whale's food" .... 228 

 Cutting away the "junk" from the "case" of a sperm whale . 229 

 An interior view of a young male sperm whale . . . .231 

 The tongue of a sperm whale; it is strikingly different from the 



enormous flabby tongue of the whalebone whales . . 233 

 The head of the sixty-foot sperm whale, the skeleton of which was 



sent to the American Museum of Natural History, from Japan 234 

 A posterior view of the head of the Museum's sperm whale . 236 



A female sperm whale at Aikawa, Japan 239 



A posterior view of the Museum's sperm whale . . . .241 

 Cutting in a sperm whale at sea by the old-time method . . 242 

 A model of a right whale in the American Museum of Natural 



History .......... 246 



A small (calf) right whale on the beach at Amagansett, Lv I. . 247 

 Stripping the blubber from the large right whale at Amagansett 250 

 The Amagansett whale covered with ice after the blubber had 



been stripped off the carcass ...... 252 



"We had to stand in freezing water while cutting away at the 



huge mass of flesh which encased the bones" . . . 254 

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