“Sorenson hesitated, swung the gun a little to one side and fired” 170 Bringing in a finback 171 A finback lying in the water at Aikawa just before it is “cut in” 172 Drawing up a finback at Aikawa, Japan 173 The long slender body of a finback lying on its side; the outer edges of the whalebone plates in the mouth are well shown 175 The spout of a finback whale 177 A finback whale “sounding” or taking the “big dive” 179 When sounding the finback sinks lower and lower until the dorsal fin disappears; this is the last part of the body to leave the surface 180 A finback taking an “intermediate” or “surface” dive 182 The upper jaw of a finback whale, showing the bristles on the inner edges of the baleen plates 184 The side view of a model of a gray whale in the American Museum of Natural History prepared under the direction of the author from studies made in Korea 188 A ventral view of the gray whale model 189 The whaling station at Ulsan, Korea 190 “At the port bow hung the dark flukes of a whale, the sight of which made me breathe hard with excitement” 191 Cutting in a gray whale 193 “When the winch began slowly to lift the huge black body out of the water, a very short examination told me that the _kaku kujira_ really was the long-lost gray whale” 194 Cutting through the body of a gray whale 198 The posterior part of a gray whale 200 The flukes of a gray whale 203 A strip of blubber from the back of a gray whale with the short flipper at the end of it 205 Captain Melsom about to lance a gray whale from the pram 209 After the death stroke 211 “The killer is the wolf of the sea and like the land wolves hunts in packs of twenty or more individuals which will attack and devour almost anything that swims” 216 A posterior view of a killer showing the high dorsal fin 217 An anterior view of a killer 222 A sperm whale lying on the slip at Kyuquot, Vancouver Island 224 Stripping the blubber from the head of a sperm whale 226 “The sperm ... has from eighteen to twenty-five massive teeth on each side of the lower jaw; these fit into sockets in the upper jaw and assist in holding the whale’s food” 228