New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-19
A WHALE ~ HARNESS.
IT IS BEING DRIVEN. THEY SAY. ACROSS THE
SEAS TO SAN FRANCISCO.

IT IS BEING DRIVEN. THEY SAY. ACROSS THE
SEAS TO SAN FRANCISCO.
Tacoma correspondence. of The Portland Ore
Colonel r; W. Black, Of the Customs Department.
agn group of islanIS off the Alaskan peninsula is
In Tacoma and Is authority for remarkable story
miscarricd Is now being driven to San Francisco
harnessed to boat and driven by his captors down
the coast through the waters Of the ocean.
The whale. named Bulshoy, an Aleut word for
Immense. was captured in the spring OF 1891 when
young and small. was possessed OF considerable
During chase for whales by whites and Indians
IT was driven into Pirate Cove tho entrance to
twenty fathoms deep. John G, Whitley, store
keeper at the island Immediately stretched across
Shortly aftsrward Whitley and his alive servant
attempted to feed the animal. and were successful.
Whitley rugged up a walrus bladder. TO which was
attached six or seven feet of rubber tube About
half a gallon OF cows milk was put in this i'm
provsed nursing bottle, and Whitley and Efteha
put il in bdarka. or canoe and padded lied along,
to come alongs lie him with their boats. After sev,
| eral hours of patient coaXng the Indian succeeded
" Wbsn the bidarka turned for the shore Bushoy
followed close behind it. More milk was obtained.
and this time Bulshoy needed no coaXing to
For the next six weeks Whitley and the Indian
fed the pup twice every day. The pup would stick
his head OF the water. close TO the landing and
look for his nurses long before the feeding time
actual training Of Bulshoy began to take definite
| form. Whitley one day said:
Il going TO train that pup so that can drive
him to San Francisco"
He and Efteha were constantly TO be seen on the
bay playing with Bushoy, who by this time had
become 50 accustomed TO his owner and nurse that
he would come to them whenever they called him
from any part of the bay. and allow them to har-
die him nj their pleasure, While this process OF
tanning was going Whitley had taken the pups
measure for a set OF harness. and both ne ana MS
native spent the nights for several weeks In maxi
The climax reached on Friday, September %
1895 when for the first time probably in the history
Of the world four -old twenty -hvefoot whale
was successfully put In harness. When Whitley and
Efteha. after putting on his harness. started tor
the shore, Iiulshoy as usual started after the pa
arka. and in doing so made the discovery that
everything not az II should be. and then ne
reared and plunged around at a lively rate lashing
forts to free himself of the offending harness But
the harness was well and strongly made, and there
Bulshoy kept UP his antics for TWO whole days
Next morning he refused TO come TO the call OF
either Whitley or the Aleut. Hunger however, soon
brought him 20 his senses, and on the morning or
the third day the native was out In the bay In
his bidarka Bulshoy came meekly alongside and
seemed 10 beg for his breakfast. which was given
him From that day Bushoy made no trouble.
on October Whitley and the native took the long
boat belonging TO the station and, attaching q
tow line to the harness band Immediately ahead or
the fore fiippers. began to cruise around the pay
Colonel Black Bulshoy would pull the boat In any
desired direction. Al,
exercised on May q OF this year Whitley and his
Aleut took the net away from the mouth OF the
cove and. a ,ordng to the programme laid out
sixteen miles away The voyage was made WITH
out mishap They afterward made "A voyage from
II Is the plan Of Whitley and his Aleut according
to Colonel Black TO leave for San Francisco about
July 20. going IN easy stages They expect TO oe OH
and II will probably be September before they
reach San Francisco