“The sei whale has a roving disposition and wanders restlessly from one coast to another, sometimes ... suddenly appearing in waters where it has never before been known” 127 “Suddenly a cloud of white vapor shot into our very faces and a great dripping body rounded out under the ship’s bow” 129 “For ten minutes the silence continued, then the Captain said in a quiet voice: ‘There he is, far away on the beam!’” 131 “I ran on deck just as the great brute rounded up right beside the bow and the gun flashed out in the darkness” 134 “The rope attached to the first harpoon floated backward in dangerous proximity to the propeller and it required some careful work to get the animal fast to the bow and the line safely out of the way” 137 Bringing the blue whale to the station 138 A blue whale at Aikawa, Japan 141 An eighty-two foot blue whale at Vancouver Island 142 The open mouth of a blue whale 144 The upper jaw of a blue whale, showing the mat of hairlike bristles on the inner edges of the baleen plates 145 Posterior view of a blue whale on the slip at Aikawa, Japan 149 The flipper of a humpback whale 150 After the humpback’s flipper has been stripped of blubber 151 The folds on the throat of a finback whale 152 A cross section of the folds on the breast of a humpback whale 154 The eye and ear of a blue whale 155 The skull of an eighty-foot blue whale, the skeleton of which was sent to the American Museum of Natural History from Japan 157 “The finback whale is the greyhound of the sea ... for its beautiful slender body is built like a racing yacht and the animal can surpass the speed of the fastest ocean steamship” 159 “I was standing on the bridge with the camera focused and pressed the button as they rose to the surface” 160 “An instant later came the crash of the harpoon-gun and the nearest whale, throwing its flukes and half its body out of the water, turned head down in a long dive” 162 The finback whale reaches a length of about seventy-five feet 163 “I had climbed to the barrel at the masthead ... and was watching the little pram as it neared the dying finback” 165 Marked with a flag and left to float until the end of the day’s hunt 166 The whale is made fast to the bow by a heavy chain and the ship starts on the long tow to the station 167