WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



awakened me, I ran out and did not wait for break- 

 fast, thinking there would be ample time to eat when 

 the operations were under way. It soon became evi- 

 dent, however, that there were no breathing spells 

 when whales were being cut in, and every soul was 



"A hollow, spear-pointed tube of steel . . . was jabbed well down 

 into the whale's abdomen, the engines started, and the animal 

 slowly filled with air." 



at his work until the last scrap of flesh was in the 

 boiling vats. 



After a heavy wire cable had been made fast about 

 the posterior part of the whale, just in front of the 

 flukes, the winch was started. The cable straightened 

 out, tightened, and became as rigid as a bar of steel. 

 Slowly foot after foot of the wire was wound in and 



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