WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



I finally discovered a very effective, and I think 

 highly original, way to stop the stealing. In my equip- 

 ment there was a 22-caliber rifle and several hundred 

 B. B. caps, the bullets from which would just about 

 penetrate the thick, wadded trousers of a Korean. 



"When the winch began slowly to lift the huge black body out 

 of the water, a very short examination told me that the koku 

 kujira really was the long-lost gray whale." 



I made a hole in the shojo, the paper screen of the 

 Japanese house where I was living, and sat down to 

 watch. In a short time a Korean stole up to the pile 

 of bones and bent over to pick out one which he could 

 carry. I drew a fine bead on the lower portion of his 

 anatomy and when the rifle cracked the native made a 



194 



