WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



flurry, and the fact that he struck the vessel was 

 pure accident. Nevertheless, the results would have 

 been none the less serious if he had hit her squarely. 

 After a hasty examination showed that the propeller 

 was uninjured, the whale was hauled to the surface. 



"I was . . . gazing down into the blue water and waiting to 

 catch a glimpse of the body as it rose, when suddenly a dark 

 shape glided swiftly under the ship's bow." 



I was standing on the gun platform gazing down into 

 the blue water and waiting to catch a glimpse of the 

 body as it rose, when suddenly a dark shape glided 

 swiftly under the ship's bow. At first I thought it 

 was only imagination, an aftereffect of the excite- 

 ment, but another followed, then another, and soon 

 from every side specter-like forms were darting 



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