WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



The body was then hauled to the "carcass plat- 

 form" at right angles to, and somewhat above, the 

 "flensing slip," the flesh was torn from the bones in 

 two or three great masses by the aid of the winch, and 

 the skeleton disarticulated. 



Flensing a whale at one of the Vancouver Island stations. A 

 great strip of blubber is being torn from the animal's side. 



After the bones had been split and the flesh cut into 

 chunks two or three feet square, they were boiled 

 separately in great open vats which bordered the car- 

 cass platform on both sides. When the oil had been 

 extracted, the bones were crushed by machinery mak- 

 ing bone meal to be used as fertilizer, and the flesh, 

 artificially dried and sifted, was converted into a 



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