Show I 1 1 I WHALING OF TODAY i SOME FACTS ABOUT WHALES AND I 1 HOW THEY ARE CAUGHT I 1 jany ot or hie tite mg creatures weigh orel ore a ton one of thelt their hulk Is et bl S soine 6 ili a much gi A after cut up it la Is necessary ary to know bow hov at whak looks and what ltv habits an are in order to I 1 understand under tand how they should be hunted they ney are abbit 50 11 0 O to CO feet long and look tike like vase black logs logn floating in n th the e wate w hii their L bodies dieg appear on the su surface r they are detected at tit a distance by the stream of water they spout through their blowholes blo wholes s from one fourth to ono one thir third dIke tho full length it is t taken aken up tip bythe by the beul which hichi 1 ft from front 8 to 12 fret feet long and from oto gio 12 feet in fit thickness are tire deti destitute tute of teeth but instead the Is furnished with I 1 an n apparatus WP of balen baleen or whalebone foi for the purpose of straining out of the water I 1 the small fish ar aa 4 crustaceans which form their food the fibrous structure of whalebone I 1 its ts claW elasticity eity and heaviness are all well known the plates of it in the mouth are very numerous several hundred on each ewh side nad ad placed very close together the whole quantity sometimes amounting to tto over two tons in weight the tongue is a soft thick mass and does not extend iw be yond the back odthe of alie mouth the gullet is very narrow narmy not over I 1 aj inches even in the largest BO so that animals not much jarg larger r aban ones thumb cannot pass down 1 their throats the skull la Is not symmetrical the right side being bellg larger than the left the flesh is ds red and coarse coatse the skin Is naked aad moistened moisten dd by an oily fluid parasites in I 1 fest ibm skin and some species of mollusk I 1 bur rowand live in it below the skin is n thick layer of blubber from one to two feet in thickness bome sometimes times weighing over thirty tons tom this keeps the animal warm and enables it to resist the great Ivres pressure sure of the water witter in the depths to which it descends the tall is five or six teat feet long and nd twenty to twenty five feet broad and is a most powerful weapon of defense the eyes not much larger than an ox are on the side sides s of the head about a foot I 1 above the angle of the mouth whales weigh from 50 to 12 tons and of their weight at least half is of value and finds a ready market W HERE S ARE FOUND in addition ad to the two tons of whalebone there are tire about barrels of oil GO in a bowhead whale ides Ite sides the bene and oil whales afford a very valuable product k known down to com commerce merce na its ambergris it is a morbid secretion of the liver antl intestines ot of the sperm whale a solid opaque ash colored inflammable substance lighter than water witter of a consistence like that of wax and having when heated a fragrant odor I 1 the heat hexton of th the e hand melts below dega r fahrenheit into a kind of yellow resin resin and is a highly soluble in al alcohol cobol it in usually found floating on the surface of the ocean ar r oust cast veon the chore shore in regions frequented by whales as on the coast of tha the ahama wands lands ih aleutian islands and other north pacific islands sometimes in masses of f irom 50 to 11 pounds in weight in this substance are found the beak beaks of cuttlefish on w which 11 lab the whale la is known to feed lads it lis highly tallied at as a material for perfumery and was formerly used in elneas as an aphrodisiac and for spicing wines sometimes aa as much as im twenty to thirty pounds is founds in one chaje and all this is add additional profit of course A bowhead bow beadli whale is worth from front to ZW or from front to about they feed by with ther their open when tc loses the water Is out through the valves at the idea and rome some is spouted up through the blowholes blo wholes the mall small fish and mollusks mol luska thus captured makeup make tip their food now for the mode of bunting them on oa all of the whalers chalers A lookout is kept from the crows nest ne st on dw mast and when one la is sighted spouting outing cp the lookout reports there the blobel PY bere awa y is called from the deck two points on the starboard bow sir ar or wherever else it may be immediately boats are I lowered div and the chase commences the least unusual noise will ww frighten them and after sail is set on the ia boat no one Is allowed to speak or move a foot even if there isoo breeze bree ta to car carruthe carry rythe ithe boat then the man in the thet j tern tem p paddles addles in that direction ha jut noiselessly as possible pon sible not daring to use an oar for fear ear splash will frighten the victim A LEVIATHAN the boat follows ai i closely in tho the wake of the whale as a s possible and the bowman blands in the bow bour band hand this harpoon or iron as a it de is called Is a broad bladed spear head three or four feet long very sharp and laying haring about abou t six inches cutting surface eon on each cach side and is tautened fastened ona oua on a pole about too ben feet long just ahead of a gun that Is the same I 1 pole A spring connects the tle harpoon and the trigger of the gun eo so that when the harpoon enters the flesh thoo pressure backward pushes the trigger spring and the bomb Is exploded then thea comes the fun I 1 stunned and stung as tie he ie Is ithe whale starts down to escape and the bowman pays out the line attached to tolbo iho harpoon pole As soon as it in Is slack stack lie be hauls in fit again aud and pays out when it tightens so ou on it goes until the boat may have been towed several milci miles but still holding on and taking another shot every chance offered and as boon as the whale ie is killed it is i hailed along alongside side and fastened to the api shi upi pis chains chain the process of fleshing or cutting up iti Is then commenced some of the crew hating their boots bouts armed with iron spikes 10 keep them from front slipping descend upon t and cut into the berwith blubber sp iules removing a broad stait or blanket of skin twenty or thirty feet long dong aich la Is hoisted by block and tackle cubical pieces of blubber of bait a toti or more in weight are then cut out and hoisted to the deck it is turned rud HD dover over until the tat fat Is removed mean N hue parl of the crew removed the baleen or whalebone from the mouth the remainder carcass is flung adrift us As food tar inears and fishes the blubber L alter after received on deck is cut into mall small plows and heated in large pots afterward a strained and the scraps or crack bets nets from tro iaione one pot serve as fuel for others this Is a called trying out and ia is very similar to trying out larda lard a process known on vry every PlAn plantation Lation in georgia georg ia philadelphia bulletin |