Show whales F follow ollow a aa an ship ip school of seventy five follow vessel for two hours nevor before in memory of skippers were huge mammals so numerous along atlantic coast as aa at present time new york no vessel essel passing through the picket line of whales which has patrolled the atlantic coast from florida to maine blaine since july has encountered such a largo large school as did the schooner ella L devenport which arrived the other day from charleston S C with lumber never before in the memory of skippers making this port were the huge mammals so BO numerous as at the present time whalers chalers which formerly were forced to traverse arctic seas in search of their quarry merely put out to sea nowadays and harpoon their prey I 1 had seen several small schools of whales on the way up said captain john F dunton of the davenport none of these schools came very close but about 20 miles southeast of winter quarter shoal lightship down at the delaware capes the arg est bunch of em I 1 ever saw h hooy it from the south it a school schoot lk was a big university you can cant t count whales very well because ss aaroon soon a you count one h be bobs bob under c up in another place dives down agal and sticks up his spout for another tally dut but I 1 marked the ocean oft off into four parts when the whales circulated all around and gave one quarter to the first mate one quarter to the see sec ond end mate the third quarter to the to boswald bos waln swain and the fourth to my wife I 1 kept tally on all four dividing by three to account for the natural restlessness of the animals im pretty eure that there were at least 75 v hales in that university my aly wife declares there were they do any harm except fig fi lg g one that scraped the bottom of tle the hull the rattled down below and settled a little to leeward but the whale swung from under and the boat righted herself my wife e was waa pretty badly seared scared I 1 can tell you but I 1 think wed come to harm I 1 know a whale will never smash into a ship unless it is attacked first good natured and seem to know that theres plenty of room in the ocean for more than two hours the school accompanied the ship swimming along in twos and threes turning diving Aw ImmIng below the surface in all directions but keeping in the general direction of the davenport after they had escorted the davenport for nearly ten miles they suddenly headed beaded for the south and in five minutes were out of sight |