MY FIRST WHALE HUNT 



very fine guano. Even the blood, of which there 

 were several tons, was carefully drained from the slip 

 into a large tank, and boiled and dried for fertilizer. 

 Finally, the water in which the blubber had been 

 tried out was converted into glue. 



The baleen, or whalebone, which alone remained to 

 be disposed of, was thrown aside to be cleaned and 

 dried as opportunity offered: The baleen of all the 

 fin whales is short, stiff, and coarse and in Europe 

 and America has but little value. In Japan, however, 

 it is made into many useful and beautiful things. 



I learned that the cutting operations at Sechart 

 and the other west coast stations were conducted in the 

 Norwegian way which is followed in almost all parts 

 of the world except Japan. In the Island Empire a 

 new method has been adopted, which, while it has 

 the advantage of being very rapid, is correspondingly 

 dangerous and will not, I think, ever be widely used. 



