WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



see the second dorsal fin about two feet behind the 

 first. 



Suddenly the animal spouted in a way that was 

 unfamiliar to both of us, for the vapor column was 

 very thick and plainly divided. We were within forty 

 fathoms, almost near enough for a shot, before I re- 

 alized that our strange cetacean was really two whales 

 a cow finback and her nearly grown calf. The lat- 

 ter was on the far side of the mother and was pressed 

 closely to her side. Its dorsal fin appeared just be- 

 hind that of its parent and while the whale was broad- 

 side to us we could see no other part of the calf's 

 body. Had we not been following the animal I should 

 forever have been convinced that I had actually seen 

 a double-finned whale. 



