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Whales were blowing in a large hole about a mile south , but none came near us . ... Two of us put up the shelter while we were waiting , and had begun to make a pot of coffee when a whale was seen to blow a few hundred yards to the ...
Whales were blowing in a large hole about a mile south , but none came near us . ... Two of us put up the shelter while we were waiting , and had begun to make a pot of coffee when a whale was seen to blow a few hundred yards to the ...
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it was hours before we had the whale safely at the edge of the ice . And when at last we had raised the carcass nearly to the surface and suspended it from a mast lashed across two of the canoes , we found that we had a quarter of a ...
it was hours before we had the whale safely at the edge of the ice . And when at last we had raised the carcass nearly to the surface and suspended it from a mast lashed across two of the canoes , we found that we had a quarter of a ...
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I had killed about a dozen when the lookout signaled that he had seen a whale , and I returned to camp . A number of white whales appeared close to camp and then two small bow- heads passed a quarter of a mile away .
I had killed about a dozen when the lookout signaled that he had seen a whale , and I returned to camp . A number of white whales appeared close to camp and then two small bow- heads passed a quarter of a mile away .
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