WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



ever seen a finback float, although I had been told that 

 occasionally they did not sink when killed. 



While the animal was being secured and the air 

 pump started, I climbed to the barrel to watch the 

 movements of the calf. The little fellow refused to 



A finback lying in the water at Aikawa just before it is "cut in.'' 



leave his dead mother and circled around and around 

 the boat within easy gunshot. Although he was swim- 

 ming low in the water, showing only a small part of 

 his back above the surface, I exposed a plate each time 

 he came near, until the stock of negatives had been 

 exhausted. 



In a short time Sorenson had the gun reloaded and 

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