WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



"You'll never get him. I'm going below." 

 "Well, I'll stand by until it is too dark to shoot," 

 he answered. "I might get a chance yet." 



I had hardly reached the cabin and begun pulling 

 off my oilskins when the jerk of the engines told me 

 they must again be close. I ran on deck just as the 



Bringing the blue whale to the station. The carcass is almost as 

 long as the ship. 



great brute rounded up right beside the bow and the 

 gun flashed out in the darkness. "Shinda!" yelled 

 the sailors, and through the smoke cloud I could see 

 the whale give a convulsive twist, roll on its side with 

 the fin straight upward, and slowly sink. 



138 



