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Show CHICAGO MAN TO HUNT FOR WHALES Boston. Feb. 10 John Borden, a wealthy vouuk man of Chicago lias completed fitting out the special!) built auxiliary yacht Adventuress aboard which he expects to spend six months in hunting whales in the far north Captain F. B West of l'rov Incetown, an old whaler, has been1 placed In command of the yacht, and will probably start with it this week for Seattle He has a bet with friends tn New Bedford that the ten j thousand-mile trip around South Am i rica to Seattle will be made in le6s than a hundred nailing days The yacht is said to be one of the finest ever sent into the Arctic and It is well equipped with rifles shotguns, whaling whal-ing guns and harpoons. |