WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



though personally I believe them to be true. J. G. 

 Millais, Esq., has given an interesting account of 

 a blue whale hunt, which I am quoting in full since it 



The open mouth of a blue whale. Ten or twelve men could 

 stand in the mouth, but the throat is only eight inches in 

 diameter. 



shows, in some degree, of what this magnificent ani- 

 mal is capable: 



The most remarkable and protracted hunt on record after 

 a Whale was experienced by the steamer Puma in 1903. The 

 most exaggerated accounts of this appeared in the Ameri- 

 can and English papers, where the journalists went so far 

 as to say that the Whale had towed the ship from New- 

 foundland to Labrador, and other wild statements. The fol- 

 lowing particulars were given by Hans Johanessen, mate 

 of the Puma, so they are, at any rate, first hand. 



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