WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



Engineer to check the line. Then began the work of 

 bringing to the surface and inflating the dead whale. 

 Taking a hitch about a short iron post, the harpoon 

 rope was slacked and run through a spring pulley- 

 block on the mast, just below the barrel, to relieve 



"Two men with long-handled knives began to cut off the lobes 

 of the tail." 



the strain of raising the great body. As the winch 

 ground in fathom after fathom of line the vessel heeled 

 far over under the tremendous weight. I was cling- 

 ing to the ship's side looking down into the water 

 and soon saw the shadowy outline of the whale, fins 

 wide spread, nearing the surface. As it came along- 



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