WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



Hope and, since the tropic waters of the Equator are 

 not an effective barrier, wander from the borders of 

 the Antarctic far up into the North Pacific and At- 

 lantic, or vice versa. 



The sperm whale is also a cosmopolitan wanderer, 

 but the right whales apparently do not cross the 



The upper jaw _of a finback whale, showing the bristles on the 

 inner edges of the baleen plates. 



Equator which, as Lieutenant Maury remarks, acts to 

 them like a "belt of fire." The bowhead is found 

 only in the Arctic regions. 



Strangely enough, if whales are driven away from 

 inland waters they seldom return, and others will not 

 take the places of those which have been killed. This 



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