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cut to pieces by the Kaiirs — everyone in a hurry — and another 

 Whale on the stage waiting to be cut up, and the stage itself on 

 which the cutting up was in progress was inches deep in dirt, 

 grease, and blood. 



The kidney is composed of several hundreds of separate 

 small glands, each of which is about the size of a walnut ; these 

 are all contained in a common outer membrane ; the whole 

 conglomerate organ is more than three feet long. There was a 

 bunch of about a dozen soft nematode worms in the loose con- 

 nective tissue of the kidney ; each worm was about a foot in 

 length. I had put these on one side for preservation, but in the 

 confusion and grease and blood they were unfortunately lost. 



The contents of the stomach consisted of a dark brown sub- 

 stance, of the consistency of thick paint. I could not discrimi- 

 nate any form or shape of any particular organism. In one 

 part of the stomach there was a distinct line of demarcation 

 between the cuticular and the villous portions ; on the latter 

 were several raised nodules. 



The liver was an immense organ, and though all authorities 

 say the Whale has no gall-bladder, I believe there was one — at 

 any rate, as far as I could make out in the very rough tearing 

 up of the carcase, there was a large bladder adherent to the 

 liver, and in the position of the gall-bladder, of three or four 

 gallons capacity, and containing about this quantity of a dark 

 brown fluid. The contents of the small intestine were semi- 

 fluid, and reddish brown in colour. 



The external generative organs are greatly developed ; 

 the penis of one Whale I saw measured six feet, but I was 

 told by the manager that they were sometimes quite eight 

 feet long. What I have termed the " genital sheath " is 

 the external opening seen in both male and female of the 

 generative organs ; it is longitudinal, and bounded on either 

 side by a rigid lip ; it is quite four or five feet long, and is 

 situated on the abdomen, opposite the dorsal fin, about one-third 

 the length of the body from the tail or "flukes." When the 

 male is brought ashore the penis is almost always hanging 

 pendulous from the sheath. 



The mammas of the female are in a depression on either side 

 of the genital sheath. Our captain told me that last season he 



