WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



method of capturing humpback whales in wire nets 

 (described in the Introduction), can a great deal of 

 meat and ship it to the South Sea Islands, where 

 it is sold to the natives. 



The baleen of the fin whales, which is of little value 

 in Europe and America, has been put to many uses by 

 the Japanese. When I visited the exhibition rooms 

 of the Toyo Hogei Kabushiki Kaisha in Tokyo, I 

 was astonished and delighted at the cigar and ciga- 

 rette cases, charcoal baskets, -sandals, and other beau- 

 tiful things created by their clever brains and skillful 

 fingers from the material which in the hands of West- 

 ern nations seems to be almost useless. 



