LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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TO FACE PAOX 



The " Cachalot " Frontispiece 



Lancing a Wiiale 39 



The Whale started off to Windward with us at a 



Tremendous Rate 74 



Firing a Bomb-lance 119 



A Vebt Large Sperm Whale was locked in Deadly 



Conflict with a Squid 143 



On his Back, with his Jaw in the First Biting Position 235 



A Ten-mile Steady* Pull to Windward .... 254 



The Vast Flukes of the Whale . . . shore off the Bow 



or the Attacking Boat 2Yl 



Map — The Mean Track of the " Cachalot " on a Whaunq 



Cruise round thje World ...... 1 



