LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Lancing a Whale Frontispiece
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Piping in the Arctic 24
Modern Whale Gun and Harpoon 24
Stern View of the St Ebba 40
The St Ebba in the Fiord of the Vikings 40
Dead Seal on the Floe Edge 48
Mouth of a Finner Whale 72
Leaving our Two Whales at the Station 76
A Finner Whale being cut up 76
Towing a Whale 80
Two Whales being hauled on a Slip 88
Flensing Blubber off a Polar Bear’s Skin 102
Whale Under Side up 102
The St Ebba Motor Whaler in Oban 112
The Arcades at Ponta Delgada 136
Tunny on the Beach at Madeira 136
Killers attacking a Finner Whale 152
Cutting up a Cachalot Whale 156
Sperm Whale sounding 156
Trying to get rid of the Lasso 157
Cutting up Sperm Blubber 158
Hauling Sperm Whale’s Flipper and Blubber on Board 160
A Sleeping Bear and Cubs 168
A Dead Bear 184
Reloading a Gun with a Harpoon 192
Towing a big Bear’s Skin 192
The Last Cartridge 200
Arctic Shark 208
A Modern Steam Whaler 208
Fulmar Petrels 216
Starboard being hauled on Board 216
A Polar Bear 224
The End of the Trail 232
Towing Two Bear Cubs 264
The Captain’s Polar Bear Cub 264
Bears in the Water 272
Our Last Glimpse of the Ice 288
Our Engineer’s Daughter 296
Photo of Starboard 304
Species of Whales 310

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