WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



The guns bang as often as they can be loaded and the 

 whales made fast, and the number killed is merely a 

 question of how many harpoons each ship carries, or 

 the hours of daylight left when the herd is found. 

 The school will usually move very slowly, blowing 



The head of the sixty-foot sperm whale, the skeleton of which 

 was sent to the American Museum of Natural History, from 

 Japan. The "case" yielded 20 barrels of spermaceti. 



and wallowing along at the surface, and the animals 

 in the center are heedless of the slaughter on the out- 

 skirts of the herd. At times, however, the whales 

 will stampede at the first gun, and it then becomes 

 a stern chase, which is often a long one, before a ship 

 can get fast. 



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