Oct. 22, 1910.] 
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FOREST AND STREAM PUB. CO., 127 Franklin St., New York 
The following is a copy of the post card which 
I have by me at present writing: 
“Mr. W. Sinnott: 
“Dear Sir—In reading Forest and Stream, 
an article by W. J. Carroll, who said that he saw 
at your place a whale fifty-nine feet long from 
whose stomach was taken a shark nine feet long, 
two large halibut and about fifty codfish, I want 
to know if you can verify that story. 
“Yours very truly, 
“Rev. C. F. L. Smith.” 
In reply to the reverend gentleman's query, 
Mr. Sinnott quoted statistics from the company’s 
books. Every gallon of .oil and every pound of 
whale meat represent so many dollars and cents, 
and if the manager cannot produce the goods for 
the company, so that they show in their proper 
places at the end of the year on the credit side 
of the company’s account, is it likely that he is 
going to exaggerate his returns when they must 
be verified regularly by the company’s auditor? 
He assured me that the figures were slightly 
wrong, because after I had left they secured 
some more oil from the bones, so that instead 
of ninety-eight and a half barrels, the returns 
show 109 casks of oil containing forty-six im¬ 
perial gallons in each cask, a total of over 5,000 
gallons from one whale, and that not one of 
the largest. 
When questioned about its swallowing capacity 
the manager said that an ordinary size man 
could almost walk down the throat of a large 
sperm whale. He then gave me figures of a 
sperm whale they had on the slip at that date. 
It was a young fish and not in the best condi¬ 
tion. It was sixty-one feet long and the head 
measured nine feet square across the nose. They 
secured eighty-four casks of oil from the head 
containing forty-six imperial gallons in each 
cask, a total of 3,864 gallons from one medium 
size whale. 
That much oil would nearly make a load for 
a small schooner. They took a pile of fish bones, 
the remains of his last square meal, out of the 
stomach large enough for a cargo for another 
small vessel. 
I am sure Mr. Sinnott, the manager, would not 
mind verifying these figures for anyone curiously 
inclined, and though I have no permission to say 
so, I am equally certain that anyone applying to 
Hon. W. C- Job, director of the company, would 
be treated by him with his usual courtesy and 
would get the statistics relating to these and 
other whales that would be a revelation to many, 
especially those whose knowledge of the levia¬ 
than is confined to the occasional sight of one 
in some illustrated paper. I also send herewith 
a photograph of head of a sulphur whale taken 
at Trinity, showing four men standing in the 
whale’s mouth. A glance will show that as 
many more could stand there with ease. I am 
indebted to Mr. Evans, of the Newfoundland 
Quarterly, for this photograph. I am certain it 
will interest many, who, like me, have had the 
haziest notions of the size and swallowing 
capacities of ordinary whales. 
W. J. Carroll. 
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