WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



tion. The audience, however, regarded me with no 

 greater curiosity than I looked at them, for the Ko- 

 rean is at all times peculiar in appearance and es- 

 pecially so when in full dress. 



He wears a long white coat with flaring skirts, 

 enormous baggy trousers gathered at the ankle with 

 a green or purple band, and atop his head is perched 

 a ridiculous little hat made of horsehair with a sugar- 

 loaf crown and a straight brim. The hat must be tied 

 under his chin to keep it in place, but at times it slips 

 over one ear and gives its wearer a singular resem- 

 blance to "Happy Hooligan." His hair is gathered in 

 a knot on the top of his head, and the few straggling 

 wisps of mustache or beard which he manages to 

 grow are as carefully tended as a rare flower. He is 

 never seen without his long-stemmed pipe, and a to- 

 bacco pouch always dangles at his belt. 



The natives of Ulsan appeared to derive never end- 

 ing amusement from me and my work. They were 

 living an utterly lazy, aimless life and although they 

 never seemed to know where the next meal was com- 

 ing from they looked content and well enough fed. 

 Numbers were always hanging about the station wait- 

 ing to pick up any scraps of whale meat left by the 

 cutters, and all day long the children, each with a little 

 basket, poked about among the cracks in the wharf, 

 now and then gleaning a handful of flesh and blubber, 

 which would help to keep life within their bodies. 



After I had secured the skeleton of a gray whale 

 and had piled the bones, partially cleaned, in the sta- 

 tion yard, the Koreans descended upon them like a 



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