Cutting away the “junk” from the “case” of a sperm whale 229 An interior view of a young male sperm whale 231 The tongue of a sperm whale; it is strikingly different from the enormous flabby tongue of the whalebone whales 233 The head of the sixty-foot sperm whale, the skeleton of which was sent to the American Museum of Natural History, from Japan 234 A posterior view of the head of the Museum’s sperm whale 236 A female sperm whale at Aikawa, Japan 239 A posterior view of the Museum’s sperm whale 241 Cutting in a sperm whale at sea by the old-time method 242 A model of a right whale in the American Museum of Natural History 246 A small (calf) right whale on the beach at Amagansett, L. I. 247 Stripping the blubber from the large right whale at Amagansett 250 The Amagansett whale covered with ice after the blubber had been stripped off the carcass 252 “We had to stand in freezing water while cutting away at the huge mass of flesh which encased the bones” 254 The baleen of a right whale 256 The white whale, or white porpoise 268 The posterior part of a white whale 271 “A big white fellow slipped under only a hundred feet away, headed directly for us” 273 “We beached it in a sandy cove, where the gray rock wall rose in a jagged mass, making a perfect background for the white body, its purity intensified by the bright red streaks of blood which dripped from the bullet holes” 276 “They are taken with a net of extra heavy twine, about 1,000 feet long, which is placed about 200 yards outside the line of surf and parallel with it” 279 “Thirty-three porpoises were beached in the haul of the seine which provided our specimens” 281 “Immediately after their capture at Hatteras ... the porpoises were placed for 24 hours in a deep salt water pond, just back of the ocean beach” 285 “The captive porpoises are very lively, and keep swimming day and night, rising to blow usually with each circuit of the pool” 288 A school of blackfish at Cape Cod 293 A Pacific blackfish (_Globicephalus scammoni_) 294 A skeleton of a finback whale in the American Museum of Natural History 303 WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA