The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-05
RARE SPORT wITn SEA GAME.
Hunting the RorGual Is said to he
mn Exciting Pastime.

From the London Telegraph.
The seeker after big sea game should
attack the rorqual if he would see sport
indeed. For this agile monster has such
O repu alton for almost supernatural cum
ming that, even If he were as valuable as
he really Is valueless commercially, it is
highly doubtful if he would ever be mo-
Tested. As it is all the tribe are charter
ed hbertines. since no whaleman is likely
70 risk the loss of d boats gear for the
barren honor of conquest. And not only
so, but the r0rquals. whether "fnback,"
"sulphur-bot ON or "blueback" as well
as the "humpback" and grampuS, make 1t
a point of honor to sink when dead. unlike
the 'cachalot," or "bowhead," which float
awash al first, but ever more buoyantly
as the progress of decay within the i'm
mense abdominal cavity generates an ac-
cumulatng volume of gas. Any Old whale
man would evolve in the interests of sport
no end of lodges for dealings with the
willy rorqual, such as a collection of
strongly attached badders affixed TO the
line 70 stay his downward course, short
but broad-barbed harpoons, to get a bet
ter hold upon the thin coating of bub-
Der, etc. In this kind Of whaling there is
quite sufficient danger TO make the sport
exciting in the highest degree Not, how
ever, from the attack of the animal but
because his evolutions in the effort to es-
cape are so marvelously vivacious that
only the most expert and cool-headed
Craftsmanship can prevent a sudden sew
erance of the MENUS between boat and
crew.
A splendid days sport can be obtained
with a school of blackhsh. Although sell
dom exceeding a ton and a half in weight
these small whates are quite VIGOROUS
enough TO make the chase OF them as live
ly an episode as the most enthusiastic
hunter could wish, especially OF two or
even three are harpOoned one after the
other on a single line. as the whalers' Gus
tom IS. The sensation of being harnessed
as il were, TO a trio of mons ters, each
about twenty-five feet long and eight feet
in girth, everyone anxious to flee in a diff
ferent direction al the highest speed he
can muster, and in their united gambols
making the sea boil like q pot. is one that
once experienced is never likely to be for
gotten. The mere memory of that mad
frolic over the heavins bosom of the bright
sea makes the blood leap to the face,
makes the nerves tWitch and the heart
long to be away from the placid round of
everyday life upon The bright, free wave
again.
Even a school of porpoises, in default of
nobler game can furnish a lively hour or
up 10 two or three hundredweight each.
But of truth there need be no fear of a
lack of game. The swift passage from
port to port made by the passenger vessels
is apt 10 leave the Voyager with the i'm
preston that the sea is a barren waste,
but such an idea is wholly false. Even the
sailing ships, bound though they may be
to make the shortest possible time between
ports. or compelled by failure of
wind TO see enough of the everyday life
of the sea population to know better than
that, and whose gives himself up to the
glamour of sea study. making no haste to
rush along from place to place, but leis-
urely lettering along the wide pains of
ocean, shall find each day a new world I'M
folding itself before mis- astonished eyes. a
world of marvels, infinitely small as well
as wondrous great-from the thousand and
one maracles that go to make up the
"Plankton" to the antediluvian whale.
Fishing in its mere heroic phases is OBJ
tainable in deep sea cruising as nowhere
else