Show M I I M n f Hunting the Largest Game on Earth t I M tU To pursue the tho blue whale successful successfully II ly I a n boat bont Is required that can twelve knots nn 1111 hour It I Is furnished with a 11 formidable weapon known ns ES ESthe the The Is If a 11 ponderous piece picco of apparatus placed n I a raised plat platform lat form Corm on the tho prow of ot the whaler and consists of ot a 1 short stout cannon mounted on a n broad pedestal on which It can enn rotate horizontally horIzon tal The gun Fun has also u IL vertical motion can be he turned quickly In whatever direction the tho prow of tho ship On the tho top of at the gun Jun are Bights for tor aim aimIng Ing Just as in a rifle Behind In III the tho stork lod which Is II grasped In the hand Ind when firing the gun and beneath It the trigger Hie rho breech Is a I boxlike ar Rr arrangement situated just where the stock Is IA fastened to the tho gun proper The fie gun Is loaded In the tM ordinary way from Crom tho th muzzle the harpoon Is tightly rammed Into It I To discharge the gun n a small cartridge with wih a I wire attached l Is first put Into the breech on the tho trigger causes a pull on the tho wire which Ignites tho cartridge and discharges the gun Iun simultaneously The fhe harpoon is about six feet teet In length and very Ver massive It I consists essential essentially ly I of ot three parts I rt tho anterior conical portion the tho movable barbs bib and ld the shaft shat The anterior conical piece Is an 11 explosive hell filled with fu poder screws on to the rest of the har harpoon poon Tho explosive shell la 19 firel with witha wih a after Iter the tho harpoon on Is Im Imbedded 11 bedded In the whale Behind the tho explosive conical piece He e etha tho tha lour four barbs situated at right angles to 10 each cah other These barbs are always bound down tightly together gether with thin n fr r Mien the harpoon harpool l II going to b he discharged AH Af the harpoon the tho Ilc h of ot the tho this rope rOllO gel brushed oft the th barbs In so 80 doing pulls pUls n a which sets tire to tho fuse und It explodes tho shell shel In u u tow fow ascends ec ends ond The shell getH JetH blown to pieces leceR am lit the moke a C terrific li Inter and Uie e explosion raUS the four Cour to out so that It bo boo comes Impossible for tor tho ha to 0 bo ho withdrawn Thu ho est of ot the tho harpool 11 of Ir n 1 long on hut with a slot in It ItIn ItIn In which a n ring moves freely with lh tho thi rope rOllO attached If I the tho whale Ik at nil well hit the har Mt harpoon poon gets Imbedded about live feet and 1001 1 the lope breaks the animal can cannot not f The h rope which In I a n Very ry slut one pUKes passes from the on onto onto to A n round try tn In II front of ot the gun 1 heu a 1 cl 1 of ot fifty oC feet reet or so 10 Hei It 1 thin passes over oer pul on onto onto to tho drum of n double steam wind whIch Supplied with nn In Immensely Immell clY brake Taken all ul In all aU says a writer In tn tho un Is bout tho most mol exquisitely cruel Instrument of or do de man mi tf Uon devised by b the tho Ingenuity of ot |