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blow. When there is little feed and the whales are 

 constantly moving, or traveling, I have seen them rise 

 a mile or more from the place where they last dis- 

 appeared, spout a few times and again go down, re- 

 peating this as long as they could be seen from the 

 ship. There is no valid reason why the animals 

 should not continue for half an hour or more without 

 appearing to blow and during that time even slow 

 swimmers, such as humpbacks, could cover three or 

 four miles. 



One day at Ulsan, Korea, Captain Hurum found 

 two humpbacks and struck one. Captain Melsom who 

 was but a short distance away came up at once and 

 stood by to shoot the second whale. But that in- 

 dividual had absolutely disappeared and although the 

 sea was calm and both ships kept a sharp watch 

 was never seen again. Captain Melsom says it must 

 certainly have swum five miles without rising to spout. 



When and where whales do sleep we have no means 

 of knowing. They have been recorded as following 

 ships for great distances, always keeping close by, 

 and I have often heard them blow at night. My 

 own theory is that they sleep while floating at the 

 surface, either during the day or night, but I have 

 little evidence with which to sustain it. 



Whales must have some means of communicating 

 with each other of which we know nothing, for often 

 the members of a school, even when widely separ- 

 ated, will leave the surface together and reappear at 

 exactly the same instant. 



At times two whales will swim so closely together 



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