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TO THE FROŽEN SOUTH. THRILLING ADVENTURES ON Amethodically turns to dive. But this is

WHALER.

not the first whale the gunner has seen.

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Mr. A. J. Viltiers, who is argompany- Carefully, patiently, steadily he waits, ing the Roog Son expedition frem Ausglancing along the sights taking deadly tralia, is writing a series of articles en aim at the interminable flank before hii. his experiences for the Brisbane Fourier. His forefinger Hasps the trigger tightly. and in the following describes the modern | The Small Boreal fit comes slowly into methods of hunting whales:-

view. His forefinger. twitches.

The lasia-

"It is early in January, and our heat- With spurt of Fame, a deafening! quarters are in Discovery Inlet, that brash and a roar, a dying of twisting, bleak crack in the Great Barrier, 2,700 writhing was dirough the air, a pang- miles from Hobart, and practically the rn, burning taste of gunpowder, tha farthest poim po which it is possible for gun speaks, and the ponderous ft. ships to go. is cold, very cold... Alength of forged steel is expelled, making biting wind blows from off the desolate the heavy rope from the bow-wheel tray waste of the Barrier surface, and stirs By through the air in all manner of the salle green sea to a xurly swell, fantastic Toops and figures. The sky is cloudy, dell and grey. The than has been hit and sounds instantly seascape is dera ry, cheerless, and sad, nor in a blinding fary of ohm and spray, is it ape the less cherriess and sad. The water before the little ship o when the gold low sun glaners unwilling thing cauldron. A deep red tint is ly through a rift in the clouds aid seen. A dull thump-thi explosion off whites, form menent, the grey surfaces the shell deep in the whale's vitals-comes of the ice does drifting everywhere. A from the depths. The little vessel quickly sinat berg, freshly calvid from the Barbucks; the rope runs furiously over the rier, drifts aimlessly about, gently lapped how-wheel for minute after minute, Ar by the cold gry sea.

as if the were length it slackens its und speed ever sa anxious to proclaim its friendship,, to slowly; it slackens and slackens until the whisper to its new companion heartless mate puts the brake on the winch, and thoughts for the destruction and down-no more rope can run out. The great full of man. For a time there are no whale lies dead full 40 fathoms below the evidences of life. There a birds, alien surfare. And all is quiet again," hut even penguits, and no sens Buy

DIFFICULT TO KILL

anon the spout of a lene bull be whale. But it is not always so easy--this hunt- sole denizen of this dreary waste, risering and killing of whales. The blue high in the air, spreads, and falls into whale 6. D tremendous creation-the Le MA. He sounds"xual rises to blow largest in the world-and it takes a dot again.

WRAMA SIGHTED.

an kill one. If it is not struck in a vital hart it will require two, and even thre, Hours past without a changa But great steel barpoons and bombs to finish stay Slowly a new, actor coiner into it, despite the terrible tearing of its this dreary scene. At first but a cloud organs by the bursting of the soft-iem of smoke low upen, the horizon, it grows bombs Sometimes the harpoon glaho» and grows, until it resolves Starli jato off the curved back, and the bomb ex- a little steamer, very intent, upon some plodes harmlessly in the air, or, entering thing. It is a very business like Bittis: the blubber, a rib is struck, and the har steamer, with its sharp, clean lines, its poon is bent double, drawing put cre high, carved bow, and stern so low that long. If the head is struck, the harpoon its chudding propelier scarcely haves, a dog not enter at all, and if the shot wake upon the surface. From a little has gone too near the tail of the whils white barrel on a high brown anast the will tow the little steamer fariously mufted head and shoulders of a man pro-about- for hours. It is impossible often trude. The little steamer's thin funnel to get close enough to put in the second belches forth black smoke convulsively. shot, and whales sometimes are lost Its bow, sharp as a knife, at the water through this. Ofter the whale must be line, swells out in dowing-lines to support chased and hunted and circicd round for a lightly sparred wooden platform, and a hours and hours before the chance of ad Cruel little grey gun. From the short shot presents itself. The fin whale is ex- barrel of this little gun a great barbed (ceptionally shy and fast, and is very steel harpoon protrudes, its Tour barbs difficult to secure, less it has gorged ying lashed back on its grooved shaft. itself full, and lies, too full to win, Modera its nose tipped with a long-pointed soft rolling lazily on the surfer. iron. shell. A heavy yellow rope is fast whaling. despite strainers and guns, wire strop passed through this bombs. and winches, is trying, ex- groove, and full fathoms of this rope asperating willing, and one in which Be clearly coiled ana til tray, resting there is more than a trifling element of ou, the two bow wheels underneath the danger.

gun. From this tray the rope passers The blue whale, wounded unto death, inboard over the bow wheel, through has been known to charge madly as his various blocks." and leads to the barrels puny assailant, and send the little vessel of one of the powerful twin winches ja broken mass of strap-iron and match- frout of the bridge. From here it dis wood reeling to the depths. Many are appears below the decks."

the names of little whalers, spoken of with dread in the quiet of the night. which have left the mothership in excel

Stringe lent weather never to return. are the stories of the finding, weeks after-

harpoon from a lost whaler.

The lone hall rises and blows again, but not unnoticed. The figure is the barrel gesticulates and point Blaast Blaast Blow Blow!" he calls, and directs the benchman whence" towards, of the bodies of great whales steer. From his lofty height he can watch floating on the hunting ground tearing the whale under water, for stade little the unmistakable brand of a marked tne, and ein estimate roughly where he will be most likely to rise again. The helman gives the wheel a hasty turn, and matters into the speaking tube on his right. The little ship shakes and spurts hand. The whale blows again, the best file se mats in the world Now the captain (a striking, figures, in his and will live forough anything, but there black fur cap, half covering his weather- ja always the treacherous ice. There are beaten, fair-skinned face. his heavy fogs and mists to hide the waiting bergs leather coat, corduroy trousers, and sand the wallowing floes, and there are the boots, where the copy of which gry blinding blizzards to fear. But nothing woollen socks peep) takes charge from his

THE HARDY NOUSEMEN. There are other dangers ne luis severe, thigh much were canuman. Weather holds no fears for the whalers. fre they

station on the little island bridge, set ever daunts the explain or the hardy crews of the five little frost-bitten high before the yellow fannel. He has whalers. They are splendid men whose seen the spout. “Blanbral-aterste vi powers of endurance, patience, and emur- har sit (Blue whale biggest we havenge are peerless. And they are "very sen), he mutters contentedly to himself, quiet-very quiet indeed. They never and quietly issues orders into the speak ing zube by his side. The little ship slackens speed, swings. hastens little ngnin, and stops. -The winle blows once more. much lower now, but still a little out of range. It is enough. His death wil sex be upon him.

PREPARING FOR ACTION.,

have anything to say of the experiences and the dangers through which they pass.

For four months these men worked jn- cessantly, their regulation four hours on (four hours off), without change. Their unprotected, unsheltered, tiny vessels were always coated with see: their low. decks

For were continually awash The captain climb from the little twenty-four hours of the day these men bridge, clambers along the ascovered hanted the elusive whales, standing their decks to the gun platform in the, bow, watches aloft in the cold look-cut barrel. and takes his stand on the little raised and at the colder wheel. Whenever a wooden deck. He has become the guiner, whale was sighted and approached near for thrt also in the captain's work. He enough to shoot all hands had to be on The little vennela carried only fondles the loaded gun, grasps the stock deck. with his strong hare hands, and swing sailors, two. engineers, two firemen, and eleven men each-the ciptain, mate, four the gun around in its bearings to le sure it has not frozen tight; he glanens cock. When the actual shooting and at the homb, at the rope lying lifeless heaving in of whales was afloat, the cap. the tray before him, at the hiccks and tain was at his gun, the mate stood by gear aloft. He is satisfied, and be keen to reload, the look out man when he came eyes

come to rest on the rising set before down from aloft saw to the clearing of him. Occasionally he signals to the the harpoon lines, the steersman watched helmsman to steer this way and that; he bis helm, the two sailors and the fireman signals for mere speed, for less, to stop the work of heaving in the dead whale, from the watch below stood by to assist And yet he sees nothing. But be has Bern-he saw that whale blow twice, tincs pumping compressed air into its body and enough indeed, for him" to apeculate making it fast alongside, while the cook knowingly on its age, its fatness, and looked on if he had the dinner, or tea, probable number of barrels of oil it or whatever, it was, ready. The recond will give. Those things run through his engineer always drove the powerful mind as he stands at his familiar post, winch.

on

fondling with one bare hand the short In all sorts of weather, except good, #tvel stock; the other is tucked in his and under all sorts of conditions, toe CORL His heavily sea-booted feet are little whalers and their creus carried on As Moon 15 they planted firmly against the light steel their arduous work. spars on the platform; his body sways brought in one ico-caked whale the set pasily with the motion of his ship: His off bot-foot to sen again for another, or keen eyes search the grey sea ahead. And two, more if possible, despite the snow hot in vain.

and ice, blizzards and gafen, mists and His dagle eye catches a glimpse of a and icefogs. Nothing ever daunted these gre grey bulk rising through the gallant crews. When the icefore bang shadows ahead. He grasps the stock so heavily that it was impossible on the firmly with both hands; his right fore mothership to distinguish the foremost, finger softly fondles the trigger as he from the bridge thy little fenevered was for the breaking of the waters by gale-blown-whalers came in with their the great grey balk below. The look-out two and thres whalese let, then along- inan comes down from his lofty perch. side, draw quickly and quietly back into At last seare 20 yards from the little the for again to: swing and set ff to vesnel's bow, the surface of the water sea-this despite the fact that ice in breaks, a high colume of spreading spray great, irregular pieces weighing hundreds gees up fall 15 ft., and slowly, the great of tons each was continually falling from whale's head cornca into view. Serenely the Barrier all around, that their path it comes above the surface and as slowly was strewn with icy destruction, that Larns and glides beneath again, while the gales with mountainous seas raged out- great streaming grey bulk of the back side. The crews of the five wllers were and top flanks becomes slowly exposed splendid men; the pick of splendid as the whale arches hin body to sound rece

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