Great care must be used as the hunters draw near the narwhal for that long tusk could make a hole through a boat in an instant.
There are different kinds of whales; there are porpoises and swordfish; more important still is the narwhal with its long ivory tusk pointing straight out from its head.
As they paddle along, as soon as a narwhal appears in sight they hurry toward it with all the speed possible.
As it was, the mad upward rush of the narwhal missed its aim.
With mad thrashings the narwhal struggled to break loose, but in vain.
Darting downward, easily as a mink might have done, he struck the unsuspecting narwhal in the middle of the back just between the flippers.
Having delivered what he felt must be a fatal and final blow, the narwhal at once backed downward with powerful surges of his tail, trying to withdraw his horn.
But the wounds went little below the blanket of blubber which enclosed the narwhal underneath his hide.
Though he mistook the narwhalfor some kind of gigantic seal, and therefore scorned him, he had not missed the possibilities of that long, menacing horn.
One of the teeth of the narwhal is developed into a straight, spirally fluted tusk, from six to ten feet long, like a horn projecting from the forehead.
Timid by nature and fearing to rise for breath, the narwhalplunges along until nearly strangled.
Would we not get her a few boxes of matches in exchange for a narwhal tusk?
Every seaman, from cabin boy to captain, suddenly got rich in the gamble of trade for prized blue-fox skins and narwhal tusks.
Again the narwhal plunges deep down, with but one breath, and hurries along as best it can.
Still others came up in the rear, for the narwhal cannot easily see backward, and does not often turn to watch its enemies, its speed being so fast that it can easily keep ahead of them.
The quest of the walrus and the narwhal came in our own immediate plan of adventure, although the narwhal, called by whale fishers the unicorn, does not often come under the eye of the white man.
Narwhal hunting, in itself, and without the added spur of personal interest, which I had, is brimful of thrilling sport.
One sees nothing of the narwhal and very little of the kayak, for dashing seas wash over the little craft, but the double-bladed paddles see-saw with the regularity of a pendulum.
At this time, although field work was painful, the needs of our venture forced us to persistent action in the chase of walrus, seal, narwhal and white whale.
One of the narwhal tusks, worth to me at least $1,000, was polished and sent as Peary's trophy to President Roosevelt.
The battle continues for several hours, with many exciting adventures, but in the end the narwhal always succumbs, offering a prize of several thousands of pounds of meat and blubber.
He recognised me on the platform at Narwhal Junction.
From the moment Rose got into the railway at Narwhal Junction, she slid contentedly back into Mrs Roe.
I was at Narwhal Junction waiting for the train, when I met a very old friend on the platform--going to Clam Beach, just as I was coming away.
That is Mollekin's; you should have turned to the left for Narwhal Junction.
The Narwhal is an inhabitant of the Arctic seas, where it sometimes attains a length of from twenty to twenty-five feet.
He noted that they were half a hundred strong, and that all were armed, many with their little javelin-like narwhal harpoons, some with spears, and others with rifles.
Only one remained, sitting cross-legged at the head of the grave, his long narwhal spear at his back.
The web imprint in the snow was not that of the broad narwhal strip, but the finer mesh of babiche.
In the temiak there were no pockets, but at the waist of each of the dead men a narwhal skin pouch which answered for all pockets.
In each was the inevitable roll of babiche, or caribou-skin cord, and a second and smaller waterproof narwhal bag in which were the Kogmollock fire materials.
And when they are fighting in earnest they must be able to use their long spears with terrible effect, for several times a narwhal has charged a ship, and driven its tusk so deeply into her timbers that it was quite unable to withdraw it.
Now and then, however, both teeth are developed, and a narwhalwas once killed which had one tusk seven feet five inches long and the other seven feet.
In former days this tusk was thought to be the horn of the unicorn, and the narwhal is often known as the sea-unicorn.
THE WHITE WHALE The white whale, or beluga, is something like a large narwhal without a tusk, and is also a dweller in the northern seas.
A big bell was jangled in front of the dining-room, and nasal voices yelled--"Narwhal Junction!
The top of this totem is an exact replica of our narwhal horn.
It was a short, broken piece of the twisted horn of the narwhal or white whale, discolored, and rubbed smooth as if with much handling.
At first they were merely the record of a buried treasure, the wealth of the northern tribes being the ivory of the walrus and the narwhal and such tusks of the mammoth as came to them through the melting of the glaciers.
You have come from a spot near to the land where the Kablunets have settled, and you are bringing iron and other things to exchange with my kinsmen for horns of the narwhal and tusks of the walrus.
The daughter's supple fingers soon braided evenly and closely the sinews of the narwhalinto the tense and needful bow-strings, for Shung-hu hunted reindeer with bow and arrows.
It is a block of spruce, fitted with a shaft of narwhal ivory.
The other three are long, 20 to 25 inches, and are made of narwhal ivory, as is shown by the spiral twist in the grain.
The narwhal is very rare in these waters, while the white whale is comparatively abundant.
Skins of the narwhal or beluga are no longer mentioned as important articles of trade.
Many implements are made of bone, others of walrus tusks or narwhal horn.
This lance consists of a heavy handle with a long point of rod iron; formerly bone or narwhal ivory, with an iron edge inserted into its point, was used for this purpose.
The narwhal and the whale are particularly admirable.
The narwhal and the white whale are hunted in the same way as the walrus and the right whale.
It was the long twisted horn of the Narwhal which did duty for ages as the horn of the fabled Unicorn, a gift worthy to be presented by an Emperor to an Emperor.
Upper surface of the Skull of male Narwhal (Monodon monoceros), with the whole of both teeth exposed by removal of the upper wall of their alveolar cavities.
In the case of the narwhal such an abnormal structure is easily accounted for, seeing that to use effectively the long tusk with which the male is armed a considerable amount of mobility in the neck is absolutely essential.
Among the dolphin group the narwhaland the white whale, or beluga, are distinguished from all other cetaceans by the great comparative length of their cervical vertebrae, all of which are completely free.
One of the royal treasures of Denmark is the narwhal throne of the Castle of Rosenberg.
A juvenile narwhal in a tank at New York Aquarium.
Like the other medium-sized whale in the same region, the beluga or white whale, the narwhal has no dorsal fin.
Neither the narwhal nor the white whale," he continues, are timid animals, but will approach close to, and gambol for hours in the immediate vicinity of the ship.
The skin of the narwhal boiled to a jelly is looked upon, and justly so, as one of the prime dainties of a Greenlander.
The narwhal (Monodon monoceros) is found frequently in company with the white whale, and inhabits much the same geographical area.
He seized a heavy harpoon handle, made of a great narwhal tusk, and swinging it high struck the Newfoundlander a terrific blow on the head.
In exchange for stuff of trifling value the white men secured, by their method of threatening bargaining, loads of blue and white fox skins, caribou hides, and walrus and narwhal tusks which the natives had previously preserved.
The thing which I first thought of was the dead narwhal with the great long horn; and I imagined that, if we could only get that out of his head, we should have all we wanted.
So long as the old narwhal lasted, we felt that we were safe enough, even after he had apparently satisfied himself with a good meal, and had gone away, as seemed likely, to sleep.
But this set us to thinking again; and the birds being very tame, and flying low, it occurred to us that we might make a net, and fasten it to the end of our narwhal horn, which we had thus far only used while making our hut.
The narwhal is a small species of whale, being about twenty feet long, and spotted something like an iron-gray horse.
I don't know whether it was the Dean or I that first suggested it, but we made up our minds that the moss which we had turned up with the narwhal horn, when we were building at the hut, some of which had dried, would burn.
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