All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . m. GREENLAND WHALK. THE RORQUAL WHALE. The Hump-backed Whale is found in great numbers in the Arctic is a large animal, often reaching a length of seventy-five feet. It has acurious depression in the middle of its back which makes it appear to behump-backed. This whale yields a great quantity of oil, which is almost asfine as sperm-oil. Nevertheless, the whalers avoid the hump-back as much aspossible. Once it has been wounded it pursues a boat until it has destroyedit. It is seldom that the harpooner can kill the hump-back outright, evenw
All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . m. GREENLAND WHALK. THE RORQUAL WHALE. The Hump-backed Whale is found in great numbers in the Arctic is a large animal, often reaching a length of seventy-five feet. It has acurious depression in the middle of its back which makes it appear to behump-backed. This whale yields a great quantity of oil, which is almost asfine as sperm-oil. Nevertheless, the whalers avoid the hump-back as much aspossible. Once it has been wounded it pursues a boat until it has destroyedit. It is seldom that the harpooner can kill the hump-back outright, evenwith an explosive bomb-lance, and if he misses his stroke altogether, the boatis certain to be destroyed with a sweep of the huge creatures tail.
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