676 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 22, 1910. 
Hints and Points for Sportsmen. 
Compiled by "Seneca.” Cloth. Illustrated, 244 pages. 
Price, $1.60. 
This compilation comprises six hundred odd hints, 
helps, kinks, wrinkles, points and suggestions for the 
shooter, the fisherman, the dog owner, the yachtsman, 
the canoeist, the camper, the outer; in short, for the 
field sportsman in the varied phases of his activity. 
“Hints and Points” has proved one of the most prac¬ 
tically useful works of reference in the sportsman’s 
library. 
FOREST. AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
—— Dixon’s Graphite for Sportsmen —— 
A lubricant and preservative; for fishing rods and reels; 
for gunlocks and barrels; for row, sail and motor boats. 
Booklets "Graphite Afloat and Afield” and “Dixon’s 
Motor Graphite ” free on request. 
JOSEPH DIXON CRUCIBLE CO. • • Jersey City, N. J. 
Gas Engines and Launches. 
Their Principles, Types and Management. By Francis 
K. Grain. 
The most practical book for the man or boy who owns 
or plans to own a small power boat. It is motor launch 
and engine information boiled down and simplified for 
busy people, and every line of it is valuable. Cloth, 122 
pages. Postpaid, $1.26. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
TRAINING vs. BREAKING. 
Practical Dog Training; or Training vs. Breaking. 
By S. T. Hammond. To which is added a chapter on 
training pet dogs, by an amateur. Cloth, 165 pages. 
Price, $1.00. 
RECORD SALMON—WHALES. 
Continued from page 661. 
peared some notes written by me. Among others 
was the following; 
“I was at Trinity a few days ago and saw the 
remains of a monster sperm whale. At the risk 
of being accused of telling 'tall fish yarns’ 1 
will give some figures obtained from W. Linnott, 
the manager of the factory. No doubt he will 
be happy to verify them for anyone who is curi¬ 
ous enough to make inquiries. 
”It appears to me from a glance at the data 
supplied that the Bible is not so. far out after 
all. and that the miraculous voyage of Jonah is 
not as improbable as it appears to the votaries 
of the higher criticism. Of course many of the 
higher critics never saw a whale, and are on 
that account better fitted to dogmatize on the 
subject than either the early Biblical writers, or 
the modern whale-killers. 
■‘This- was a sperm whale. It was killed near 
Trinity on Sept. 11, 1907. It was not considered 
a very large whale, as it was only fifty feet long. 
“From its head were obtained ninety-eight and 
a half casks of sperm oil, containing forty-six 
gallons each. Five and one-half barrels make 
a ton of oil. 
“The principal objection to the Biblical story, 
by those who class it as an allegory, is that a 
whale cannot swallow anything large and there¬ 
fore couid not take down an ordinary sized man. 
“When this whale , was opened they found in 
its stomach one large shark nine feet long, very 
little digested. It also contained two large hali¬ 
but and another in an advanced stage of decorn- 
posititin and about fifty codfish of various sizes. 
Over twenty people can testify to these facts. 
“I must confess it was a revelation to me when 
I heard that the average whale had such a capa¬ 
cious swallow. I was under the impression that 
this mammoth fish could not swallow anything 
larger than a herring at a single gulp. 
“When I heard the particulars of this fish I 
took down the figures and verified them ,on the 
spot. 
“I give them to Forest and Stream in hopes 
that it may induce someone interested in such 
matters to investigate the swallowing capacity of 
ordinary whales, with a view to proving that the 
miraculous Bible story is not so improbable after 
all.” 
The figures quoted caused some comment, both 
local and otherwise, and no later than about a 
month ago I was discussing various matters 
with a man who prided himself on his knowl¬ 
edge of the fish and fisheries of this country, 
and he scouted the idea of a whale’s head giving 
.such a large quantity of oil, or any whale being 
able to swallow anything so large as a nine-foot 
shark. He was so positive, that as I had mis¬ 
laid my notes, I began to doubt if I had given 
the figures accurately. 
Last week I happened again to be in Trinity, 
and the first thing I did when I got time was 
to look up Mr. Sinnott and ask him to search 
the official records of the company for that date 
(September, 1907), and correct me if I had made 
a mistake. 
M. Sinnott was highly amused and went to his 
desk and produced a belated post card dated at 
La Fayette, U. S. A., Jan. 22, 1908, but which 
took many months to find him, and which .re¬ 
ferred to the matter in question. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
