A LONG BLUE WHALE CHASE 



be. The driving rain covered the lens with a film 

 of water as soon as the coat was lifted, and I knew 

 that trouble could be expected with the shutter when 



"For ten minutes the silence continued, then the Captain said in 

 a quiet voice : 'There he is, far away on the beam !' " 



the dampness had penetrated to its curtain. The 

 whale came up two or three times and through the 

 field glasses I could see its diminutive dorsal fin and 

 blue-gray back which, in the rain, appeared to be 

 exactly the color of the water. 



