THE LARGEST ANIMAL THAT EVER LIVED 



ward for seven hours at no time at a less speed than 

 eight knots. Some years before this in Norway he 

 shot a blue whale at five P. M., which dragged the ship 

 with engines at full speed astern until eleven P.M., 

 when he slowed down to half speed; at one A. M. he 

 changed to dead slow and he finally killed the whale 

 at two o'clock in the morning. 



