“The winch was then started and the whale drawn slowly toward the ship” 99 A sei whale at Aikawa, Japan 101 “‘There’s a whale dead ahead. He spouted six times’” 102 “The click of the camera and the crash of the gun sounding at almost the same instant” 103 “We were just off Kinka-san at half-past six, and by seven were blowing the whistle at the entrance to the bay” 105 “We hunted them for two hours, trying first one and then the other—they had separated—without once getting near enough even for pictures” 107 “He was running fast but seldom stayed down long, his high sickle-shaped dorsal fin cutting the surface first in one direction, then in another” 108 “Always the center of a screaming flock of birds which sometimes swept downward in a cloud, dipping into the waves and rising again, the water flashing in myriads of crystal drops from their brown wings” 109 A sei whale showing a portion of the soft fatty tongue 110 “In the mirror of my camera I could see the enormous gray head burst from the water, the blowholes open and send forth a cloud of vapor, and the slim back draw itself upward, the water streaming from the high fin as it cut the surface” 112 “Then turning about with his entire head projecting from the water like the bow of a submarine, he swam parallel with the ship” 115 “I was ... gazing down into the blue water and waiting to catch a glimpse of the body as it rose, when suddenly a dark shape glided swiftly under the ship’s bow” 116 “Two boat hooks were jabbed into the shark’s gills and it was hauled along the ship’s side until it could be pulled on deck” 118 Making the sei whale fast to the bow of the ship 119 A sei whale swimming directly away from the ship 120 “For many years the sei whale was supposed to be the young of either the blue or the finback whale, and it was not until 1828 that it was recognized by science as being a distinct species” 122 A sei whale fast to the ship 123 A blue whale, eighty-five feet long, at Kyuquot, Vancouver Island 125 “In the water the sei whale may be easily recognized at a considerable distance by the form of the spout and the high dorsal fin which is prominently displayed as the animal swims at the surface” 126