WHALE HUNTING _with_ GUN _and_ CAMERA A NATURALIST’S ACCOUNT OF THE MODERN SHORE WHALING INDUSTRY, OF WHALES AND THEIR HABITS, AND OF HUNTING EXPERIENCES IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD BY ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS ASSISTANT CURATOR OF MAMMALS, AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, NEW YORK; FELLOW OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES; MEMBER OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON, ETC. [Illustration] ILLUSTRATED D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK LONDON 1916 COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY Printed in the United States of America THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO MY WIFE WITHOUT WHOSE ENCOURAGEMENT IT WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN WRITTEN AND TO MY MOTHER WHO HAS BORNE THE ANXIETIES OF HER SON’S LONG WANDERINGS PREFACE In this book I have endeavored to tell of modern shore whaling as I have seen it during the past eight years while collecting and studying cetaceans for the American Museum of Natural History. This work carried me twice around the world, as well as northward on two expeditions to Alaska, and southward to the tropic waters of Borneo and the Dutch East Indies. I have also tried to give, in a readable way, some of the most interesting facts about whales and their habits, confining myself, however, to those species which form the basis of the shore whaling industry, or are commercially important, and which have come under my personal observation. In all of this work the camera has necessarily played a large part, for it is only by means of photographs that whales can be seen in future study as they appear alive or when freshly killed. It is hardly necessary to say that the photographing has been intensely interesting, and to any one who is in search of real excitement I can heartily recommend camera hunting for whales. It should be understood that this book is in no sense a manual of the large Cetacea. I hope, however, at some future time to write a volume which will treat of this wonderful mammalian order in a less casual way, and thus satisfy a desire which has been ever present in my mind since I began the study of whales. Some portions of this book have been published as separate articles in the _American Museum Journal_, _World’s Work_, _Metropolitan_, _Outing_, _National Geographic_, and other magazines, but by far the greater part of it is new.