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Show ENZJIY OF WHALES. Strang Creature- Said to Exist in AlasXan Waters. ' While operating a fishery In Admiralty Admir-alty Island, Alaska, last summer, my attention and life attention of the fishing fish-ing crew was almost dally attracted to a large marine creature that would appear ap-pear in the main channel of Seymour canal and our immediate vicinity. There are large numbers of whales of the species rorqual there, and the monster mon-ster seemed to be their natural enemy. The whales generally travel in schools snd while at the suface to blow one would be singled out and attacked by the fish, and a -battle was soon in order. or-der. It is th nature of the rorqual to make three blows at intervals of from two to. three minutes each, and then sound deep and stay beneath the surface sur-face for thirty or forty minutes. As a whale would come to the surface, there would appear, always at the whale's right side snd Just about where his head would-connect with the body, a gre&t, . long tall or fin. "Judged by five fisherman and a number of Indians, In-dians, after seeing it about fifteen times at various distances," ' to be about twenty-four feet long, two and one-half one-half feet wide at the end. and tapering down to the water, where it seemed to be about eighteen Inches in diameter, diame-ter, looking very much like the blade of the fan of an old-fashioned Dutch windmill. The great club was used on the back of the unfortunate whale in such a manner that it was a wonder to me that every whale attacked was not instantly in-stantly killed. Its operator seemed to have perfect control of Its movements, and . would bend It back till the end j would touch the water, forming a ! horseshoe loop, then with a sweep it would be straightened and brought over and down on th back of the whale with a whack that could be heard for several miles. If the whale was fortunate fortu-nate enough to submerge itself before the blows carr.e, the spray would fly for a distance of a hundred feet from the and drowning several of its occupants. ! Forest and Stream. effect of the stroke, making a report as loud as a yacht's signal gun. What seemed most remarkable to me was that, no matter which way the attacked at-tacked whale went or how fast (the usual speed is about fourteen knots), that great club would follow right along by its side and deliver those tremendous blows at intervals of about four or five seconds. It would always get in from three to five blows at each-ef the three times the whale would come to the surface sur-face to blow. Th whale would generally rid Itself of the enemy when it took its deep sound, especially if the water was forty fathoms or more- deep. During the day the attack was always off shore, but at night the whales would be attacked In ' the bay and within 400 yards of the fishery. I do not know of any whales being killed, but there were several that had great holes and sores on their backs. Questioning the Indians about It, I was told that there was only one, that it one attacked an Indian canoe, and with one stroke of th great club smashed the canoe Into splinters, killing 1 - - |