Chapter I: Front Matter

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A YEAR WITH A WHALER

A YEAR WITH A
WHALER

BY
WALTER NOBLE BURNS

_Illustrated with Photographs_

NEW YORK
OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY
MCMXIII

Copyright, 1913, BY
OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY

All rights reserved

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. The Lure of the Outfitter 11

II. The Men of the "Alexander" 21

III. Why We Don't Desert 33

IV. Turtles and Porpoises 46

V. The A, B, C of Whales 59

VI. The Night King 71

VII. Dreams of Liberty 83

VIII. Gabriel's Little Drama 95

IX. Through the Roaring Forties 107

X. In the Ice 118

XI. Cross Country Whaling 128

XII. Cutting In and Trying Out 137

XIII. Shaking Hands with Siberia 149

XIV. Moonshine and Hygiene 162

XV. News From Home 171

XVI. Slim Goes on Strike 182

XVII. Into the Arctic 191

XVIII. Blubber and Song 198

XIX. A Narrow Pinch 210

XX. A Race and a Race Horse 219

XXI. Bears for a Change 230

XXII. The Stranded Whale 239

XXIII. And So--Home 247

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Cutting Out" a Whale _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

In Bowhead Waters 16

When Whaling is an Easy Job 40

Waiting for the Whale to Breach 72

Unalaska 112

Waiting for the Floes to Open 120

"Trying Out" 144

Callers From Asia 152

Peter's Sweetheart 160

Eskimos Summer Hut at St. Lawrence Bay 168

At the Gateway to the Arctic 176

Hoisting the Blubber Aboard 184

Our Guests Coming Aboard in St. Lawrence Bay 192

The Lip of a Bowhead Whale 208

A Close Call Off Herald Island 216

Skin Boat of the Siberian Eskimos 240

A YEAR WITH A WHALER

A Year With A Whaler