WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



breathe. This owes its origin to the fact that whales 

 will suddenly appear when for several hours previ- 

 ously there has been no sign of a spout even at a dis- 

 tance. Captain Grahame first called my attention to 

 this fact and since then I have personally witnessed 

 it twice. 



Once, when sixty miles at sea off the Japanese 



"Suddenly, not more than two hundred fathoms in front of the 

 ship, four humpbacks spouted and began to feed." The flukes 

 of one are shown, in the distance is a second which has just 

 spouted, and the smooth patches of water where the other 

 two descended are seen in the foreground. 



coast, trouble with the engines caused the ship to lie 

 to for about three hours. During most of that time 

 I was in the barrel at the masthead watching with 

 glasses a school of porpoises (Lagenorhynchus obli- 

 quidens), which were playing about some distance 

 from the ship. As far as I could see there was not 

 the slightest sign of a whale nor had there been for 



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