WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



Andersen and I went below to an excellent tiffin, 

 for which I had a better appetite than at breakfast, 

 as the sea had subsided. The course was set for the 

 station to get coal and water for the next day's run, 

 but we could not be in before seven or eight o'clock. 



A sei whale swimming directly away from the ship. The nos- 

 trils or blowholes are widely expanded and greatly protruded. 



The gunner lay down in the cabin for a short nap, and 

 after lighting my pipe I went "top sides" to the bridge. 

 I had been there not more than ten minutes, when 

 "puf-f-f" went a sei whale about two hundred fathoms 

 away on the starboard beam. 



The air pumps were still at work inflating the car- 

 cass alongside, and the gun had not yet been loaded. 

 Captain Andersen ran forward with the powder 

 charge sewed up in its neat little sack of cheesecloth; 



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