When larger eels were placed in the tank they would be taken out dead in a day or two with their sides scratched and torn by the small teeth of the whale which had failed to swallow it.
Bean, director of the aquarium, the whale "was as healthy a one as ever spouted until late on Friday afternoon, the 24th, when one of the keepers noticed that something was wrong.
The white whalecan be kept the year round in New York city if it can have a refrigerating plant to give it the temperature which it needs, and proper food.
After the season for hatching trout and salmon was over, in April, I was detailed to build a branch aquarium at Coney Island, with instructions to construct a whale tank the first thing, in order to be ready for the next arrivals.
His attention was attracted by the loud wheezing that accompanied each blow that the whale made when he came up for air.
My whale was either diseased when captured or took a cold at Isle aux Coudres.
Fortunately, two days later, as the Strathcona lay taking onwhale meat for winter dog food at the northernmost factory, the Northern mail steamer came in.
It was soon seen that O'Rook was right for the whale rose to blow, and swam towards the Rainbow, while the boats of the whaler immediately followed in pursuit.
As he spoke the whale rose about three miles to windward of them, not far from the boat that led the chase.
But in a few minutes there was no need for telescopes, as the whale came straight towards the Rainbow, dragging the boat after it, while the other boats followed as fast as the men could pull.
A whale would knock the spots out of the biggest shark that iver grew, so it would.
Jimmy; "and yet deny that a whale is a fish if ye dare?
In all my experience in this peculiar line of live fishing I have never known a whale to break through the barrier of piles and make his escape.
Above that line there were cracks for the surplus water to flow off, and it was necessary for a man to stand over the whale and constantly drench him until the receiving tank was reached,--a difficult undertaking.
Indeed,' ses the grasshopper, 'no one belonging to me would ever recognise me ever again if they thought I was trying to make a whale behave himself.
But comparisons are odious, as the whale said to the grasshopper.
And yet all this is as certainly true as the account said to be from Quebec in all the papers of last week, that the inhabitants of Canada are making preparations for a cod and whale fishery this summer in the upper Lakes.
From his own statements we learn that he had been connected with a whale ship as cooper.
But see, the boats are spreading out; they are no longer together; the whale has dived, and there is no saying where she may come up.
McBain, as the giant whale rises almost under their very bows.
The conversation concerning the whalewas renewed after dinner that evening, the mate and Mr Stevenson having been, as was usual when anything extra was on the tapis, invited to partake of that meal.
An account of a battle for a stranded whale may be read in the Saga of Grettir, translated by Mr. Morris and Mr. Magnussen.
The third and largest weapon is that called katteelik, with which the walrus and whale are attacked.
He was then at once, aged twenty, sent to the Arctic seas, where he was during two or three years in command of a ship for protection of the British whale fisheries and for revision of the admiralty charts.
The only thing that worried the Congregation was the Fear that if it wished to retain such a Whale it might have to boost his Salary.
One day he and several of my other passengers landed upon what we supposed to be an island, but which was really an enormous whale floating asleep upon the waves.
A whaling ship would not be useful as a cotton mill; but much capital that was once invested in the whale fishery of New England has since found its way into manufacturing.
The fact which illustrates the rule we have stated is that while mineral oil drove whale oil out of the field as an illuminant, this did not reduce the number of men in the general group which produces illuminating oil.
Whale oil was also used, but a little later coal oil from Pennsylvania came into vogue.
Says he will write to Chicago and inform them that I escaped a Jonah whale only to be swallowed by a Guinea nigger.
In order to obtain whale oil, vessels for that purpose were sent out from New Bedford, New London, New York and other harbors along the northern Atlantic Coast.
Two days later, the fleet met with a dead whale which they thought must be the one struck by the Salamander.
As they pulled on the hook with ropes, the strip of blubber came off the whale, the whale rolling over and over.
Finding that much money could be made by selling whale oil, the people on Long Island fitted up boats, which they kept always ready along the seashore.
For hundreds of years whale oil was burned in large lamps, and thousands of whales were killed in order to get the oil.
As the mate stood on the ship, he saw a large sperm whale rush directly at the vessel.
In some cases nearly five thousand feet of line were drawn out of the boats before the whale came to the top again.
When the whale came up to get breath, the men in the nearest boat would row toward it.
Sometimes the whale would run down so far, that it would take more line than the boat carried, to keep hold of him.
Whales breathe air as we do, so the whale that had been harpooned would have to come up again.
When the deadwhale was lying alongside the ship, the whalemen would fasten a hook in the blubber.
When a whale was killed, the men drew him alongside the ship.
We do not need whale oil so much, because we have kerosene, gaslights, and electric lights.
When the ship had reached within about fifty rods of him, they discovered that the whale had settled down deep below the surface of the water, and, as it was near sundown, they concluded to give up the pursuit.
The following thrilling account of the destruction of the whale ship Ann Alexander, Captain John S.
The whale which they had struck, was harpooned by the larboard boat.
A large bull whale lay about a quarter of a mile ahead of us, lazily rolling in the trough of the sea.
After running some time, the whale turned upon the boat, and rushing at it with tremendous violence lifted open its enormous jaws, and taking the boat in, actually crushed it into fragments as small as a common chair!
The ship passed on by him, and immediately after they discovered that the whale was making for the ship.
After reaching the ship a boat was dispatched for the oars of the demolished boats, and it was determined to pursue the whale with the ship.
It's a whale that comes up to blow," Wyn reminded her.
Early the next morning Long Island was sighted and, passing Whale Point with the submarine submerged, Rawlins headed for Rum Cay.
That old whale of a Dutchy has been anchored there and hasn't been hunting for a blamed thing!
Decayed salmon-heads and the decaying carcass of a whale that has been cast upon the beach, by their own abominable odors summon the natives for miles to a feast.
Tourists to whom a whale is a novelty will be gratified, without fail, in this vicinity.
Unlike the Aleutians, they do not eat whale blubber, as the whale figures in their totems, but are fond of the porpoise and seal.
When the Cassiar appeared upon the scene, the whale was making furious and frequent attacks upon the buck.
The captain ordered full speed ahead, and at the approach of the steamer the whale curved up out of the water and dived gracefully into the sea, as though making a farewell, apologetic bow on its final disappearance.
