WHALE HUNTING WITH 

 GUN AND CAMERA 



INTRODUCTION 



THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHORE WHALING 



ALTHOUGH the commercial products of whales 

 have contributed largely to the comfort and 

 welfare of the civilized world for over a thou- 

 sand years, never have the animals been of greater 

 economic importance than they are today 



It is true that the magnificent fleet of ships which 

 had its birth in the New England States has passed 

 away, and that the smoke of cotton-mills now drifts 

 over the famous old city of New Bedford where 

 once the harbor was filled with the towering masts 

 of scores of whaling vessels. 



But as one chapter of \vhaling history closed another 

 opened and the scene shifted to Norway) where 

 T^nsberg, a little city in Christianja Bay, has become 

 the Alpha and Omega of the modern whaling alpha- 

 bet. It was there, in 1864, that Svend Foyn invented 

 the harpoon-gun and brought into existence the sturdy 



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