WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



weather had apparently ended and at ten o'clock I 

 went aboard the Ho gel Maru No. 5 as the guest of 

 Captain Y. E. Andersen. 



A streak of brilliant sunshine playing across my 

 face from the skylight awakened me at five o'clock in 



The whaling station at Aikawa, North Japan. "Aikawa is a 

 typical little fishing village, situated at the end of a beautiful 

 bay which sometimes harbors as many as fourteen whale 

 ships from the four neighboring stations." 



the morning. The ship was rolling along in a mod- 

 erate swell, but the patch of sky which shone through 

 the open square above my head was as blue as the 

 waters of a tropic sea. Captain Andersen was still 

 asleep, and I had just decided to dress and go on 

 deck when the cabin boy ran hurriedly down the com- 

 panionway and called "Kujira" (whale). In five min- 

 utes we were both on deck, and upon reaching the 



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