“The captain swung the vessel’s nose into just the right position and they appeared close beside the starboard bow” 49 “Scrambling up, I ... snapped the camera at the huge body partly hidden by the boat” 51 Bringing in a humpback at the end of the day’s hunt 53 “Suddenly, not more than two hundred fathoms in front of the ship, four humpbacks spouted and began to feed” 58 Two humpback whales swimming close together at the surface 61 A humpback whale “lobtailing” 65 The tongue of a humpback whale, which has been forced out of the animal’s mouth by air pumped into the body to keep it afloat 68 Pulling the barnacles off a humpback whale 71 A humpback partly in the water at the station in North Japan 73 The result of a single day’s hunt 76 “In some instances the whales are drawn out upon the slip in the Norwegian way” 78 “She was listing far to starboard and we could see the huge flukes of a blue whale ... waving at her bow” 80 “A steel wire cable was looped about the tail just in front of the flukes, and the huge carcass drawn slowly upward over the end of the wharf” 81 “Section by section the carcass was cut apart and drawn upward to fall into the hands of the men on the wharf and be sliced into great blocks two or three feet square” 83 “Transverse incisions were made in the portion of the body remaining in the water, a hook was fastened to a blanket piece and as the blubber was torn off by the winch the carcass rolled over and over” 85 The inner side of a strip of blubber as it is being torn from a whale 87 “What ... remains is first tried out to extract the oil, then chipped by means of hand knives, and dried in the sun for fertilizer” 88 Whale meat on the washing platforms ready to be sent to market 89 The whaling station at Aikawa, North Japan 92 A sei whale on the slip at Aikawa 93 The spout of a sei whale 94 “He ... would sometimes swim just under the surface with only the tip of the dorsal fin exposed” 95 “I pressed the button of the camera as the broad back came into view” 97 The sei whale 98