Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-18

use the bones. 50 that all in all the crea.
ture is quite useful.
When we landed. the box that had
been towed into the bay was high and
dry beside a great hole that had been
excayated on previous tide. The fish
erman now obtained several assistants.
and, the hole being made larger, the box
was lowered into it SO that it was almost
on q level with the surrounding bottom.
a I'D was put on by leather strans. but
left open, and the trap was ready. The
lite bay in which the pit was sunk had
narrow opening. and at high tide. when
the ebb was about commencing, nun.
Der Of boats took large coarse seine
and hauled it across the opening, taking
their places in front of it and sitting.
with oars in hand, to frighten back the
whales should they venture down.
1t was a matter that required some pa.
thence, but gradually. as the tide went
out, the boiling and breaking of the
water and the occasional view OF a round
head told that some whale had been
entrapped. As the water grew lower
and lower the commotion became greater,
and finally the forms OF seven whales
were fairly exposed, rushing about, run
ming out of water in shoal spots and
making fierce breaks at the net and
boats only TO be driven back by yells,
shouts and blows from the boats, until
finally the water went down so that all
the white beauties were stranded. The
boats then moved in, and, as expected,
in the sunken box was one of the whales,
about ten feet long.
tSVa cna 10 I'll A ~msl - a Il.
erInan. THE box gets full of water and
~ always the deepest spot, and when the
whales sec the water a-goin' they go for
deeper holes If they can find them. So
this one settled in here, and here she is,
all boxed
The box had been partly lined with
seaweed, so that the creature could not
hurt itself, and presented q strange APP
pearance, the room being so limited that
only an undulatory movement could
be made with the tail, but showing
what a powerful organ il
was. The box was now packed with
more seaweed, all the spaces being filed
up around it, and finally, the lid being
closed and fastened, work was postponed
until next tide. when the water was
again IN, and good sized sloop was an.
chored over the spot. A tackle was
slung from a boom attached TO rope
handles on the end of the box. The END
was then put around the windlass and
the box and its contents soon hoisted to
the surface. Other bands were now
placed about it to prevent it from burst
ing open, and as the water ran out it was
gradually hoisted on to the deck of the
sloop and placed amidships. The whale
was now entirely out of water, lying IN
bed Of wet seaweed.
/" There amt one person in a hun
dred, . said the whaler, THAT knows
that whale can live out of water. Now
that Teller won't have a swim for two
weeks, or, more likely, three. The only
thing they do is to dash bucket OF
water over it every hour or so and keep
the seaweed wet, and / amt no doubt
but what he'd 90 month all right We
take him from here to Quebec; rhat'll
take two days, reckon; then it goes on
to a steamer that takes it to England.
Two men 60 with it; they watch four
hours off and on and keep putin water
on the seaweed.
"Who is it for don'tknow exactly,
but know the man that pays the money
is taSin' it over on a spec. Some Of them
aquariums offered a thousand dollars ii
he'd deliver the whale in the tank alive
and it lived two months. So he's goin'
to try it. I'd take the chances myself il
/ had the money. 1t costs about 5000 to
deliver it. We sent one to the Brighton
aquarium, England, and heard tel! it
lived six months.
The explanation of the fact that
whales can be so transported lies in the
fact that they are warm blooded man
mails, the same as COWS. nursing their
young, and do not breathe water. but
az, taking enough at every blow to last
half an hour or 50, only requiring water
to moisten the parts and as medium in
which to move and for which they are
adapted, so that with care whale can
be kept out of water some time. If the
experiment was carefully made they per-
haps could be forced to give up the wa
ter and live as does the manatee, so at
least the evolutIonists think. -PhilGdel-
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