WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



is perfectly dry and does not possess either the oil 

 (sebaceous) or sweat (sudoriferous) glands usually 

 present in the skins of land mammals. Because of the 

 development of blubber, and the absence of functional 

 hair, such glands are no longer necessary. The skins 

 of some cetaceans, notably the white whale, or beluga, 



A cross section of the folds on the breast of a humpback whale. 

 The upper thin black margin is the skin, then comes the thick 

 white blubber below which is the red flesh. 



and the bottlenose porpoise are made into leather and 

 furnish the "porpoise hide" of commerce, but that of 

 other porpoises or whales has not been put to extensive 

 commercial use. 



I have often read of ships being followed for days 

 by whales but have no first-hand information of such 

 occurrences. Scammon, however, remarks that he 



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