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Lancing a Whale.
An eighteen-foot spear is the lance—half iron half wood. The pram is swung out; and Jensen is handed the lance. We reach the whale and Jensen makes a lunge, and the spear goes in five feet and is twisted out of his hand; the vast body rolls over, the tail rises up and up and comes down in a sea of foam.
MODERN WHALING & BEAR-HUNTING
A RECORD OF PRESENT-DAY WHALING WITH UP-TO-DATE APPLIANCES IN MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD, AND OF BEAR AND SEAL HUNTING IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS
BY W. G. BURN MURDOCH, F.R.S.G.S. AUTHOR OF “FROM EDINBURGH TO THE ANTARCTIC” “AN ILLUSTRATED PROCESSION OF SCOTTISH HISTORY” “FROM EDINBURGH TO INDIA AND BURMAH” &c. &c. &c.
With 110 Illustrations chiefly from Drawings & Photographs by the Author
LONDON SEELEY, SERVICE & CO. LIMITED 38 Great Russell Street 1917