Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1926, Page 72

Critical Encounters With the Mam- moths of the Sea-A Cry From Aloft. and the Chase Begins—A Game of Tag on- the Ocean-A Ghost ly Form Rises—Ap- parently Dead, Then a Demon. Roy the Chapman Andrews is one of ation's lead xplorers lists. He en de fact. as “the outstand biz business explora f the magnitude expeditions are and na scribed has n e in ecause on con latest achievement as ader of the third Asiatic ex ion of the Amerfcan Museum of Natural History of New York which set forth in March, 1921, to explore the interior of Mongolia Retur, recently with dinosaur eges mammals whict had Andrews l his Asii ind esti there the headed Wl oex e on BY ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS. REAT lumberi swells ¢ wvater rolling t m the vide sweep were the igh the L port the the amed in mountains i en when we s imits I s amped 1t and ahout eep warn . right under walls, we h water woway which very en we were mountain’s ietly plowin was al of It in steam, t the Atla inz ‘A few ted beat scene there and nd the Horn hward the at Sechart work he st the Pacific resent work n had not tr 1de <hip could to see the if hale to follow were al icom who offered ¢ ide” with him leared. but said humphacks, for finbacks these hu wiet rned in e cabin able, and it asleep. 1 heing ca only waked down to call the captain. * % % x JE were well down the sound when I came on deck. and were steam irg swiftly along among little islets half rouded in gray fog teen minutes of driving at full speed and | the gray curtain began to thin: soon we ran out of it altogether. There was not a big the little Orion was dancir Balcom It w R: d He \shove, a sue Nor e to take when the would hlue ap were the did nof off the the in t sea running. ce m her T a de her ks dry said as she keeps d with this rather du fort I set down to get | he tossing as best I could. | hing was intensely interest- | for it was my first trip whaler. Alre a man | had heen sent aloft and uncon- | cernedly swinging about with glasses his eves watching the water ahead The ineer had just finished teil \g about a big fellow that a few da before had come up In front of the | ship and m toward it with his | enormous mouth wide open, when the con led d to = ing on a steam to me, s en FROM UNDER “THE ANIMAL BURST THE WATER HALF THE VESSEL'S SIDE.” man in the barrel called “Whales on the port bow'” i There were three of them—all hump- | down, | Backs. ©n the imstant, the dark bodies | «owly rounded into view and three | huge, propeller-like tails were smooth- Iy lifted out of the wat ele\':\lfld] drawn below I Instantly the engine signal rang and the ship swung about, plowing | through the water at full speed until this kept on. Each time when we were almost within range the big fel- lows would raise themseives a little higher, arch their backs, and turn vertically to the surface and again the whales sounded. For two hours downward Im @ beautiful divd, waving | <ho plugged with o | Storm | along their rision The Orion was twisting and writhing about as though possessed of a demon, and every time she climhed a huge wave to rock uncertainly a moment on the crest and then plunge head long down fts smooth. green slope. | was certain she would never rise again. Ralcom was doggedly hang ng to the gun. but just after we had oth been soaked by a biz sea that ame over the ship’s nose. he shout od. “If we don't get a shot soon, we'll have fo leave them.” At that time we were heading for the whales, which were spouting only @ short distance away. One of them had leit the others and seemed to be feeding. He was the surface, sometimes under for a sec ond two, but never far down The ship slid nearer and nearer with engines I.slow until the huze Vo ed mot 30 fathoms Wiy ! huge flukes though in de as swimming at disappe: n 1 Balc over wte he'll come again,” m. feet braced and bend the gun 1 was clinging to a rope him, trying to the flying spray ing low just bhehind cus my camera, but made it well-nigh im possible.” Suddenly T saw the captain’s mu s tizhten, the tip of the har poon drop an inch or two, and canght a phantom shape rushing upward. Almost on the instant a blinding cloud of vapor shot into our very faces, followed by the deafening roar of the n 1 the black fluki whirl upward and fall in one tremen- dous. smashing blow upon the wat then the giant figure quivered an stant, straightened out and saw in slowly * x % x l moment not a heard on the vessel save steady “flop. flop, flop” of the line on the deck as the dead weight of 40 tons dragged it from the winch Balcom leaned over the side and saw the rope hanging rigldly from the ship's how. “T must have caught him n the he said, “and killed him instant A% the captain straightened up he shouted to the engineer to check the line. Then began the work of bringing surface and inflating the dead sank JOR a sound was rt to the wh Taking a hitch a iron the harpoon was slacked nd run through a spring pulley black on the mast. just below the barrel, to relieve the strain of raising the great body. As the winch ground in fathom after fathom of the line the vessel heeled far over under the tremendous weight I was hort about post o clinging to the ship's side wn into the water and soon shadowy outline of the whale, spread. nearing the su As it came alongside a. lead-weighted line was thrown over the tail, a rope j ulled after it. then a small chain and finally the heavy chain by which the carcass was made fast to the bow. The winch had nat vet stopped when men with long-handled knives n to cut off the lobes of the tail svent the flukes from pounding rail the body swung up and down in the seaway. Already other sailors were working at a long coil of small rubber hose. one end of which was attached to an air pump and the to a hollow. spear-pointed tube steel. perforated ng its entire length. This was jabbed well down into the whale's abdomen. the engines started and the animal slowly filled with air. When the body had been in fiated sufficiently to keep it afloat the tube was withdrawn and the ineision um. * x o ¥ widinz d the ns wide FTER a limited stay at Vancouver Island I went north to Murderers Tyee. Alaska. and was being hospitably entertained on board Charles Grahame's ship, the most Capt Tyee. While hunting in the waters of Frederick Sound we came in sight of Island, and far over near the we could see several spouts and then flukes would show as one of the animals went down. indi cating to my satisfaction that some, at least, were humpbacks. When we neared the whales I left the bridge, making my way forward the deck to the harpoon gun and with camera ready braced myself against rope. The steamer was pitching furiously. and it was all 1 could do to keep my feet. but clinging to a line with one hand and shielding the lens of my camera with the other, I awaited the reappearance of a whale that had gone down on the starboard side. Suddenly the gunner shouged, ‘There he comes!” and pointed over the bow where the water was begin- ning to smooth out in a large, green patch about 30 fathoms away. Before I could focus my the whale had burst into view ing his spout 15 feet into Evidentl: again in @ second, only to reappear several fathoms astern. Time after time he showed himself, never near enough for a ‘shot, but keeping me busy exposing plates. camera send- the air. the | he saw us, for he was down | “‘FULL SPE I back appeared heside him and to- gether they seemed to he enjoying to the fu'lest extent the game of tag [they were plaving with us. Once the [larger of the two threw himsell clear |out of the water, showing | tips of his flukes and fell back with |a splash which sounded like the | fled clap of two hands he thrust his head into the whirling about, I eaught him with camera just before he sank hack ou of sight over ne of tag the whales iy the & an hour continued, but once. had been' dowr | time. the ezptain nose into just the right | they appeared close beside hoard bow The roar of ened me and the button of the camera, a had thrown the steamer into the at just the wrong time and the h poon struck the surface several feet he- low the whale. Both animaks we urning the water we saw far * * b swing th o he deaf- pressed the gun almost instinetively 1 md were « into foam m 1stert * when nex they close together, SHORT time afterwards, while T was below, sudden stopping and starting of the engines proclaimed that another whale had been sighted and the chase already bezun Pushing away the hatch which cov- |ered the entrance to the hold. I swun up the steep ladder to the deck above Sure enough a biz humpback wa spouting only a short distance away, now and then rolling on his side and throwing his great black and white | I'fin into the air. he captain swung the long circle each time the animal dis- appeared and seemed almaost tain that we would at he when he came up. And it hap- pened. for whe we had almost de- spaired of getting a shot the man In the bharrel shouted, “He's coming, | rizht below us." Looking down into the water T could see the ghostly form of the whale rising to the surface with tre- | mendous force just in front of the |bow. There was no time to stop the ship and the animal burst from the | water half under the vessel's | I started b hielding my camera {from the spout, and, stumbling over |a pile of chains on the de -k, siid ul- most to the forecastle companionway Scrambling up. I jumiped to the rail st he near body partly hidden by the boat. The whale seemed dazed by his |sudden appearance under the steam {and rolling on his side, went down only a few feet, reappearing 10 fath- oms away. Sorenson. who had held to the gun died himself, swung the: muzzle about. and taking delib erate aim, planted the harpoon sguarely behind the fin. | st ]It was a beautiful shot, and the whale went down without a struggle. | The quiet which followed the deafen- | ing explosion was broken only by the soft swish of the line running out from the winch and the men going to | their place: | 1 was leaning against the side al- ! most weak from the excitement of the lag® few minutes when Sorenson, a pleased grin on hix sunburned face, turned and said: “T didn’t miss him that time, did 1? He: never moved {after T fired.” Four hours more of chasimg first one and then another brought the vessel close to a humpback and again Sorehson sent the harpoon grashing | down D ASTERN! YELLED After about an hour another hump- | and snapped the camera at the huge | blowing | into the lungs, killing at the first shot ome time afterward 1 visited the Japanese whaling banks, famous among all deep-water saflors. There I went aboard the Hogei Maru No. § as the guest of Capt. Y. E. Andersen * % % % T the nest way at morning, and half an hour was y heavy sea. At 5 1 ship under within ina 1 ching badly Andersen and | turned out and climbed to the bridge. nd sou-westers | bhoth wearing oilskins to protect ourselves from the driving spray.e It was 11 o'clock before we raised another spout, but this animal frequently and the of birds Lovering abont wed that he was “on feed He was running fast, but seldom stayed down long. his high sickle shaped dorsal fin cutting the surface first in one direction, then in another, but always the center of a screaming flock of birds which sometimes swept downward in a clond, dipping into the waves and rising again. the water flashing In_myriads of crystal drops from their brown wings A< we came close we siw that the whale was in a school of sardines, the fish frantically dashing here and there, often jumping clear out of the water and causing their huge pursuer a deal of trouble to follow their quick turnings. But he managed his lithe body with wonderful rapidity. and he- fore the fish left him many vards be- hind was plowing after them. nfs great tail sending the water in swirl- ing green patches astern We were going at full speed and came down to half when a hundred fathoms away, but we could not take it slow, for the wh: was running directly from 1 As he ro: about 60 fathoms ahead and turned to go down, his came into view and just behind the fin a large white mark was visible. That's a harpoon sca dersen. “Tt is u bad sign. give us a run for it, after all. The engines were at dead slow now, for the whale had surely seen us and might double under the water, coming up astern. Andersen was ready at the gun, swinging the huge weapon slightly 10 and fro. hix feet braced every few seconds calling to the ho's'n aloff, “Mive masu ka?" (Do you see him?) We had been seemed hours) onted: He's was cloud him st | back sald An. He may (it when the bo's'n He's coming. On Tn a second the water hegan to swirl and boil and we could see the shadowy form rise almost to the surface, check its upward rush and dash along par- allel with the ship. “Dame (no good), come up! me, he exclalmed Andersen. sukoshi (a little more) speed, mo sukosri speed! Dame, dame, he leaving us. Half speed, half speed. Never shall I forget the intense ex- citement of those few minutes! The huge, ghostlike figure was swimming along just under the surface, not five feet down, aggravatingly close, but as well protected by the shallow water armor as though it had been of steel. Andersen was shouting beside me: “He won't come, dame, dame. Yes, now, now! Look out! I shoot, I sitoo . In the mirror of my camera I could see the enormous gray head burst from the water, the blowholes open and send forth a cloud of vapor, and the slim back draw itself upward, the water streaming from the high fin as it cut the surface. Andersen’s last words were drowned in the crashing roar of the gun. * ok % BFEFORE we could see through the veil of smoke we heard the sailors shout, “Shinda!” (dead), and the next instant the black cloud drifted away won't “Mo- 2 o'clock | 1 waiting two minutes great | showing the wh; tried cam d mal i to hi change t but before the awn and the shutter unk App: o rent THE GUNNER LIKE A MADMAN. “HE'LL SINK Us: HE'LL 1 my 1a be the a u.'u\\& SINK US!” killed instantly, for the rope was taut and hung straight down Ina few minutes Andersen gave the | word to haul away, and the engineer st h. 'No sooner had the rattling wheels ground in a few fath- oms than we saw the line slack and then slowly rise. Faster and faster it came, the water dripping in little streams from iis vibrating surface. In a few seconds the whale rose about Y0 fathoms uhead und blew, the blood welling in great red clots from hix spout boles. Tl luy motionless for a moment and then swung about and swam directly toward the vessel At first he came slowly, but his speed was Increasing every moment When almost opposite us, about 30 fathoms away, suddenly, with a ter- rific slash of his tail, he half turned on his side and dashed directly at the #hip. “Full apeed astern!” velled the gun- ner, dancing about like a madman “He'll sink us; he'll sink us'" The whale was coming at tremen- dous speed, half huried in white foam, lashing right and left with his enor- mous flukes. In an instant he hit us We had half swung about and he struck a glancing blow directly amid- ship, keeling the little vessel far over and making her tremble as though she had gone on the rocks: then bumped along the side, running his nose squarely into the propeller. The | whirling blades tore great strips of blubber from his snout and Jaws and he bucked off ustern Then turning about with his entire | head projecting from the water like the buw of @ submarine, he swam pur- | allel with the ship. As he rushed | along I cuught a glimpse of the dark | head in the mirror of my camers and | pressed the button. An instant the great animal rolled on his thrust his fin straight upward sunk It had been his death struggle and this time he wix down for good. As the water closed over the dead whale I leaned against the rail trembling with excitement, the perspiratlon stream ing from my face and body. Ander sen was shouting orders in English Norweglan and Japanese, and cursing in all three languages at once. * oxox % THINK none of reaitzed then Just what a narrow escape we had had. If the whale had struck | squarely he would have torn such n hole in the steamer's side that sinking would have heen u matter of seconds. The only thing that her was the quickness of the | side | and until at the wheel, who had vessel's nose ubout, thus leting the blow glance from hLer side. It wes a miracle that the jropeller blades nad not Lroken or bent 50 badly as to disalle us; why they were not even injured no one can tell it was simply the luck that al- ways followed this vessel since Capt. Andersen came abosrl 1 was standing on the gun platform gazing down inso the blue water and walting to catch a glimpse of the body as it rose, when suddenly a dark chape glided swiftly under the ship's bhow. At firat T thought it wns onfy my imagination, an aftereffect of the ax- citement, but another followed, then |another, and soon from every side specterlike forms were darting swiftly and sflently here and thers, sometimes showing a flash of white as_one turned on its side. They were giant sharks drawn by the floating carcass as steel is drawn by a magnet. Like the vultures which wheel and circle in the western sky fur beyond the reach of human sight, watching for the death of ome puor, thirst-smitten, desert brute, so these vultures of the athered about the d I watched them the animal's side cupshaped ch shivered us 1 thought of w happen if he fell among it ghosts Within of the time when the n drawn to the ach one fish thrown the Leen Lber, iese hol beyed sea- three minutes of whale had be It hanor | The m: themeelves, was proposed to estab) large pe put being fig entiar the prisc system in a er was know one el they « Muley he better than any 76 anc Yo Coming Era of International Good Will Predicted by Raymond, Paris Prophet for of impending events niable tha A many foresig horoscopes Pr of transigeant into power wide ma pol French capital for tion has mond had seen M of. his in de, ba ician treasc Few at that laux himself. in 1925 he would be ne; war debts on Ameri come Cail BY MYEF NY forth the sesessed by Paris prophet forewarned in his Raymond came the limelight in the past vear itimation that a prop) robahl in ck the n by to pass it laux dropped into oblix mond fore: play < that mportant affairs of France ing imp: tween Uni brot of roved F st t ted 1ght that 1 It and happ and rance tes 0a R AG theori by rit powers in t heey wi nt me vowi v con ingenious plan will he ev stabilization ated fluctua which cha for tion look will great nge, seen | of t ed for only int of ions the Pre vear, b exchar ast he A permanent stabili be made ernational bring all the impor world together of devalorization A conference tries of the world wil cial nd £ it in present the ne 1 of. e in ant to consider find a ren i he be held to consider but color also iial mat industriz rs EN. heen set S has ho he has showh much ir hecause In ory he Paris that few tin wis Ahie red the menceau fac t even ( camed that French Yet this of. Ray iating olved for exagger rate of ex wmo ad srmal fluc he it wher nee 1 f s he the causes a including Germany ot oniy fina commerci. The United tates will take an increasing inter in Cool business interests in Amer ern grea of conditions harassed by change Europ idge and tly affair perfect ean in Northwes: the tern and President with bit a's South tates, will rd contribute to the amelioration in countries burden The full efficacy of the con it of present low ex | ferences held in 1926 will begin to be felt in 1927, In France and in the United States the harvests will he middling. but this vill be made supply by Hungary, 1927 the France. chares dealing will, show plat inum up in the the excellent Rumania_and Russia harvest During in w ill he the next sugar, an world's food harvests of n excellent two vears copper and appreciable rise, and steel will be in great demand ¥ the danger of government. will vears of 14 emunating from viks nce will have local tr Bol of dimin will influence antl-Bolshevik organization formed in that country their T nish in and 1 R obtai lay not in K will Bolshevik aims will in America. Senator Borah will continue to work for the recognition by America pas will until only 19 recognize ot ssia n 1d hold ubles with revik element, but there is no aking over red violence the reins moveme durin, 1 in Thy prepo s the tructions Bolshe ferant recent them down. also be defeated of Soviet but this will not come to as the United the Russia States Soviets as a pel ] | ion | LX . COME VERY MUCH TO THE FORE.” "PERSIA WILI stable power made in the with. America aid of when financial promises past_have been complied will then come to the wi long-term loan will be particu- know that strict to he a thing of a by a modified light and beer will This is merely a mat Russia a Thirsty sratified prohibition the past smendment be permitted ter of Months Prof. Raymond has as good as solved the famous Daudet case. wherein the French Royalist ler has accused the police of having shot his son, | when the latter became implicated in American: to soon that wines laviy in | | “GREAT BRITAIN WILL NOT GO TO THE MOSUL PROBLEM.” 1930. Tn 19 a voung woman belonging to the F lish nobility. There have been many | conjectures as why the Prince of | Wales has not yet married. Accord- ling to Prof. R is that he has ever independent trammels royalty his democ desired to live an unhampered by the of matrimony, or even of This, in a manner, explains atic disposition. be and 1 The British dominions will | by revolutions between land an English army will be organ: {ized to combat them. These troubles Lwill finally be decided by o rent WAR WITH TURKEY OVER an anarchist plot, and then, having discovered his real identity, endeavor- ed to make it appear that the youth nad committed suicide in a taxi. Ac cording to Prof. Raymond, voung Daudet had been shot in the shop of the clandestine bookseller whom he was known to have visited, and then placed in the taxi, where suicide was simulated. This hears out the theory evolved by M. Leon Daudet, the boy's father, who has been fighting in the French court’s for the past two years to clear the memory of his son. Prof. Raymond forsees the death in 1926 of several men of weorld prominence, financier, another capitalist in Ger. many, and a statesman in France. The Prince of Wales will succeed to the throne of Great Britain before s [lanat e nitve populations will be | | given great autonomy. Great Britain | will not go to war with Turkey over | the Mosul problem, but will accede to | the decision of the arbitral court, | wherehy Turkey will have sovereignty | over the Mosul district under the close | | supervision of Great Britain, which | power will obtain the economic ad {vantazes desired. including a percen | tage on business interests | Among other countries in the Near | East, Persia will come very much to | the fore economically and politically. including an American | Bolshevism will continue to unsettle |enameled surfaces. the country, but its power will be of short duratien. A form of monarch- ical government will continue in Persia for another 10 years, when a vmond the real reason arbitration, | |republican form rnment storms w finally establishec Depar Great the F in genera fer from intemperate | me wen | side nea wi |aged | Atlant dange will | Turin el Several Ttaly and o self in ac cidents on the Florence- hers in France, the ain. A numbe shocks will be rn part of the e south of and wiil irin, Milan and resign in 192 £roup will government with alian lira will rimo de Rivera, the Spanish u mely popular in Jitical assassination sensation. Strong ents will continua though the Winter. 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