A DEEP-SEA SPERM WHALE HUNT 



slender hand lance. Is it to be wondered at that our 

 New England ancestors in such a training school made 

 a history of which every American may well be proud ? 

 Although deep-sea whaling is practically ended, 

 year after year two or three ships drop away from 

 the New Bedford wharves bound for the Hatteras 



A female sperm whale at Aikawa, Japan. The head of the 

 female is much more pointed than that of the male. 



grounds for sperm whales. The cruises are short 

 only six or seven months and the whales are killed, 

 cut in, and tried out at sea in the old-time way. But 

 even this lacks much of the glamour and romance of 

 the old days, when sons of New Bedford's best fam- 

 ilies manned the boats, for now the crews are usually 

 "Brava" negroes from the Kay Verde Islands, and 



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