CHAPTER XIV 

 SHIPS ATTACKED BY WHALES 



AFTER I left Alaska the Tyee Company put 

 into service a wooden whale ship called the 

 Sorenson, which in 1910 was sunk by a .fin- 

 back. The animal had been struck by one iron and, 

 suddenly going into its death flurry, began charging 

 madly in every direction. 



The long slender body of a finback lying on its side; the outer 

 edges of the whalebone plates in the mouth are well shown. 



