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Show HUNTING THE SPERM WHALE One Taken Off West Coast of Scotland Realized Five Thousand Dollars for Its Captors. A graphic account of the hunting and killing of a sperm whale is told by one who took part in it. ' Starting from the west" coast of Scotland the whaler made for Rockall, a lonely granite pinnacle that juts out of the Atlantic about two hundred miles west of the Outer Hebrides. Why the whales go there Is a mystery, but in early summer schools of them may be found In the neighborhood. The lookout look-out soon spies a "blow," that is the fountain ejected by the whale as It comes to the surface to breathe. Away goes the whaler in pursuit. After some tense maneuvering the whaler gets into suitable position, the skipper takes aim, fires his harpoon gun and a harpoon is embedded in the monster's mon-ster's body. The whale disappears taking yards of hemp line with him. Presently he rises to blow again, and immediately a second harpoon is fired at him and he goes down with yards of cable rattling overboard. About fifty minutes later he floats on the surface of the water, quite dead. Immediately the suilors fall upon him. Air is pumped into the carcass to make it buoyant, his flukes are trimmed off, so that he will float in row. and the whaler makes for Scotland Scot-land again, with a host' of screaming birds in her rear. This particular whale realized five thousand dollars. It was a full-grown sperm, about sixty feet long. ! - I |