WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



snout, or "lip," and seemed remarkably out of pro- 

 portion to the animal's size. Each jaw was armed with 

 nine, rather weak, cylindrical teeth, the well-worn tips 

 showing that our specimen was fully adult, although 

 not old. 



"We beached it in a sandy cove, where the gray rock wall rose 

 in a jagged mass, making a perfect background for the white 

 body, its purity intensified by the bright red streaks of blood 

 which dripped from the bullet holes." 



Because the vertebrae of the neck are not joined to- 

 gether as in other porpoises, the white whale and 

 narwhal are placed in a separate division, or sub- 

 family of the group; their relationship is also shown 

 in other ways, one of which is the absence in both of 

 a dorsal fin. 



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