| Show 40 0 6 I 1 a grupas Grm P pAs S V thu thursday rs hy fata data last fht A n d arrival iu ln our harbo harbor r st t johns 3 N I 1 j took place two grala grampuses gramp bresof uses 0 lar large ge a sie I 1 e W were ie with great vigor and dashing about in a frantic bewildered manner knan inan nor irr lir the waters of the arbor harbor h they had buit probably been temp tempted fid to pass the narrow ent enterante entrance ranee rante of df the hiir harbor or phile while in pursuit of caplain captain are aid now around the coast in enormous shoals fg after a time one of them escaped and made its way to sea but the other being pursued by a boated crew from her majesty MaJe steamship sifi Siri sarius tig with a aview view to capture it headed for the western side of the harb harbor orand dafid ac length 9 got Ot entangled in some piles and t became became comple compie completely tel tei powerless its all tall having lecome fast between t two R apes pes were vere passed around it and it was dragged where it soon died it proved to be a fuli full sized gramp grampus twenty nive five feet and amir four inches laches in leneth length arid and fifteen feet in girth at ith thickest thile kest part patt its mouth abe when d an kh array of power tul teeth 44 in number large dani cal cai nud aud somewhat hooked furthest baek back being flattened nm atthe he summit therall the tail tall is 14 seven neet feet in width und and forms a very avery Powei howel powerful ful fui pr propeller opellee the head ia Is short snort aud and round the lowe lower rAW j aw somewhat bent betit upward it has haa three fins two pectorals large and oval and a dorsal nearly on the middle middie bf b thu t 6 body the color of the piu on od the t h E bacr back Is a deep blacki blacky the silo ELIO si les ies aud and a n d dame abdomen n being white ove over t tbt the e delih a large jarge patch vatch thus thug it will be seen that the tho grampus is a fora aill aili atil animal mal mai u nearly half the faize size of the tho greenland whale it ia Is weldorn seen around thebe these shores its favorite re sort soft being greenland Gre green inland land aut ant al davis straits it ii i i sometimes seen 1 en io small herds in the british seas but 19 rarely capture capt di it is on record that one was captured in the thames in 1759 which was 24 feet in length two more in 1772 and arid another p 1793 which measured 31 feet in length one waa taken in lynn harbor in 1829 and was dispatched with iauch difficulty 03 a crowdog crowd of boatmen one oft of tho hope nohe taken in thet iha thames in 1772 was pierced with three harpoon and pulled the cached boat twice from to greenwich at the rate of eight miles an art hour against th UL tide tlde so longas long iong as it was allye aliye no jio boat could venture to approach it and the dying efOrt efforts sot of this creature creaturo were terrible it was finally killed ou hospital had it not been thab that its tai tal tail tall was caught in the way I 1 have described bed bedy beds between two posts near nar a wharf this specimen would haye have esca there thure were no appliances ready fur for its capture the grampus ii a voracious and warlike creature de devouring immense quantities of cod herring halibut and skate it attacks the and the dolphins dolp bins and makes fierce war on seals it la is said that a small herd of then them freau frequently erit irit attack a true whale tearing huge mouthful mouth fuls of ltd 1 ta il llesh sll sli with heir their powerful teeth blesy like so many mastiff mastil fa if around a wild bull aud covering it with blood aud and wound wounds till the great giant of the deep bue sue to its more agile foes ta rono i |
