REDISCOVERING AN EXTINCT WHALE 



just large enough for three persons, into which five 

 Japanese and myself were packed. It was bitterly 

 cold outside and such a tremendous sea was running 

 that the cabin deck was flooded every few moments, 

 keeping us wet to the skin. After a twenty- three- 



"At the port bow hung the dark flukes of a whale, the sight of 

 which made me breathe hard with excitement." 



hour trip, late in the afternoon we ran up the bay 

 which cuts deeply into the peninsula of Korea forty 

 miles north of Fusan. 



As we pulled up to the long wharf at the whaling 

 station I could see numbers of white-robed figures 

 running about like goats on the hills behind the houses 

 or standing in limp, silent groups gazing in my direc- 



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