Show WHALING OF TODAY TODA SOME FACTS ABOUT WHALES AIM HOW THEY ARE CAUGHT many diary or of the th dig die creature weigh oer a bundred ucb broil ton one HK of their ali lr bulk balk is I 1 marketable some bring n m much as B alter after abeln g cut up it ts is necessary to know how at 11 whale looks and whit what its habits are in order to understand how they should bo be hunted they are about so 50 to CO 00 feet long and look like immense black logs floating in the water when their bodies appear on the surface they ere are detected at a distance by the stream of water they spout through their blowholes blo wholes from one fourth to one t third I 1 the he f full u 11 length is taken it up 1 by the head is front from 8 to 13 12 feet long and from 9 to 1 13 feet in thickness whales are arc entirely destitute of teeth tut tout instead the mouth is ia furnished with an apparatus of baleen or whalebone for th the purpose of straining out of tile the water tb the email bibb and hisil crustaceans which form their food ane libeous structure of whalebone its elasticity and heaviness are all well known the plates of it in ili tile the mouth are very numerous several hundred on each tide side and placed very close together the whole quantity sometimes amounting to over two tons in weight the ton tongue tic is A soft thick mass and does docs not extend beyond the back of the mouth the gullet is very narrow not over IN 1 inc inches even in the lar largest gesto so EO that animals not much larger than ones thumb cannot pass down their heir throats the skull is not symmetrical the right side bide being larger than the left the flesh is red and coarse the skin is naked and moistened by an oily fluid parasites in I 1 test the skin and some species of 0 mollusk burrow and live in it below the skin is a aburrow tt ark k layer of blubber from ono one to two feet a thickness sometimes weighing over hirty bobs this his keeps the animal warm nd ind enables it to resist the great pressure it t f the water la in the depths to which it descends oberda the tail is five or six feet long nd twenty to twenty five feet broad and Is I 1 a most powerful weapon of defense the P yea eyes not much larger than those of an 0 ox X ire re on ca the sides aides of the head bead about a f oot foot bove above the angle of the mouth whales 1 weigh at 9 from OM 50 to isa L tons and of their zed freight at least half is of value and finds a keady y mar market e t WHERE williie WHALES ARE ABE FOUND I 1 t in addition to the two tons of whalebone there hem are about SOO barrels of oil in a bowhead whale besides the bone and oil ferha hales lef afford a very valuable product known to commerce as ambergris etisa it is a secretion of the liver and intestines tho the 1 1 perm sperm whale a solid opaque ash 5 adored inflammable substance tub stance lighter than V water of a consistence like that of arax and having when heated a f fragrant 6 alor d or it softens in the beat of the hand I 1 nelt alts below begs fahrenheit into a rind 4 of yellow resin and is highly soluble ll 11 alcohol lace it ft is usually found floating on the of the ocean or cast upon the shore in egions ons frequented by whales as aa on an the t of the bahama islands aleutian te I 1 ds and other north pacific islands sometimes ome 1 eti times pes in masse of from EL 50 to kinds ads in weight in this sub substance are the beaks of cuttlefish on which the 5 ebale ale Is known to feed it is highly aa a a material tor for perfumery and was as formerly aly used in medicine as an aparo iria stac and cand for spicing wines sometimes rd s aai much as a twenty to thirty pounds is i ads in one whale and all this is addi 0 o ional 1 0 nal I proult of course A bowhead whale worth from tx to 1900 or from rom 2300 0 about 11 they teed feed by swimming along with their buths open when it closes the water is drained out through the calv valves es at the irined d des an and borne is spouted up lap through tile the L 0 ow who boles aon the ie h small fish and mollusks bus us captured make up their food now for the mode of hunting them on 11 of the whalers chalers a lookout is kept from ie crows nest on the mast and when N irta ne 6 is 19 sighted spouting the lookout re orts r there she bloesl where away i called from the deck two points on 1 a starboard bow sir air or wherever else n may be immediately boats are low cd and the chase aba cba se commences the least usual U noise will frighten them and arter sail fail is set get on the boat no one is al wed to speak or move a foot even if r lere ere cl is no breeze to carry the boat then ie a man in the tern stern paddles in that diree on as noiselessly as an possible not daring I 1 use an oar tor for fear the splash will the victim A LEVIATHAN the boat follows as closely la in the wake the whale as possible and the bowman ada in the bow harpoon in hand band this sirpoon on or iron as it is called is a I 1 oad bladed spear head bead three or four feet reg go very sharp and having about six iches es cutting surface on each si fide and is stoned ed on a pole about ten feet long just a gun to lie L A spring connect the harpoon and ie a trig trigger gerof of the gunso gun so that when the arjoon enters the flesh the pressure backard pushes the trigger spring and the tha tomb Is exploded then cornea comes th tho 0 tun fun tanned and stung as lie be let is the whale arts down to escape and the bowman ya out the line attached to the harpoon lie Is As soon awn as it is slack be hauls in guji sin and pays out when it tightens so R it ft goes foes until the boat may have been wed iwed daveral veral sa miles milem but still holding on dd d taking another shot every chance otred and as a toon awn as the whale is killed it hauled alongside and fastened to tho the aps chains the process of fleshing shing no or cutting up then commenced some of 0 the CUP orew crew ting ing their boots armed with iron a keep them from slipping descend upon lie a carcam carca im and rul cut into the blubber with lubber spades removing a broad strip or I 1 lank eket of skin twenty or thirty arty feet beet long mth aich Is hoisted by block a na tackle uret cubical pieces ot of blubber ot of bait ifa a 1 more 10 in ati lit are then cut out nna nd n hol holat tt to the aeck deck it is turned over nd over antl til the tat at Is remo removed V ed mean bile bartot ot I 1 11 h crew raw removed the baleen wh alvix i dwor r 1 as 0 from rom the mouth the re the in adrift as A flung B te b S fb Z cs J r re ana fishes the blubber jaw on 0 kc ig I 1 tt I 1 T logo M WA 11 iw I 1 aroa t ter w atu a cu a aau wa en nets from one pot berve as aa acl fuel for others this Is called trying out and is 13 very similar to trying out lard a process known on every plantation in georgia philadelphia bulletin |