Modern travel, a record of exploration, travel . rooves over their sidessuggest that the parrot-like beak of the cuttle-fish hasmade its mark. The contents of the stomach of manyof the largest whales in the world, Balcenoptera Sihaldi(Blue) and Balcenoptera Musculus (Finner), which arekilled nowadays, consist almost entirely of small shrimps,about one-quarter of the size of the common shrimp. The food of the whale that used to be more common,the Right whale, Balcena Mysticetus, is about the sizeof barleycorns and looks rather like sago with a brownishtint. The whale takes a mouthful of these,
Modern travel, a record of exploration, travel . rooves over their sidessuggest that the parrot-like beak of the cuttle-fish hasmade its mark. The contents of the stomach of manyof the largest whales in the world, Balcenoptera Sihaldi(Blue) and Balcenoptera Musculus (Finner), which arekilled nowadays, consist almost entirely of small shrimps,about one-quarter of the size of the common shrimp. The food of the whale that used to be more common,the Right whale, Balcena Mysticetus, is about the sizeof barleycorns and looks rather like sago with a brownishtint. The whale takes a mouthful of these, plus water,and squeezes the water through the blades of whaleboneround the edge of its mouth, each of which has a fringeof hairs on the inside. These hairs, interwoven, make asurface to the palate like that of a coconut mat, which 36 HUNTING MIGHTY GAME makes a perfect strainer. Then the whale swallows themass of minute crustaceans that is left on its tongueand palate. The tongue is an immense floppy plum-coloured thing like a deflated A Comparison of Arctic and Antarctic Ice [The information contained in the preceding chaptershas been derived from Mr. W. G. Burn Murdochs book,Modern Whaling, by kind permission of the author.] CHAPTER IV THE ICE-BOUND SHORES OF LABRADOR It was in 1771 that the missionaries of the MoravianChurch went to Labrador. Before that time very littlewas known about the Eskimo people. Vessels seldombraved the stormy waters of Labrador, or, if they did,they ventured but little among the numberless rocksand islands that fringe the mainland. So it came aboutthat the Eskimos were seldom seen ; and the few reportsthat were brought to the civilised world by returningfisher crews described them as a totally savage anduncultured people. They seem to have deserved thename ; for the first men who landed from the missionships were killed. Doctor Huttons first impression of the land was adispiriting one. There was a chilling mist on the water,and through it
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