Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-03-22
NHALER's FRIETI
THE "kiLLERs" OF rWo.Fotn :.
 WHICH HELP THE FlshERMsn

A Strange and Terrible Fish, and II. D.
 iar Characteristics-Des to wbs,..
 Sharks But will Never Injurs a M.,
 Has Enormous Strength.
 Two-fold bay, a magnificent d..| water harbor on the southern eoas. New South Wales, Is a fisherm, paradise, though Its fame is but los or known only to outsiders who \ have spent day there when travaeI from Sydney to Tasmania in s steamers which occasionally mt there to ship cattle from the uAI township of Eden. But the chief n0 of interest about Two-fold bay is a 1t Is the rendezvous of the fam0 killers" (orca gladiator), the deal foes of the whole race of cetacs,l other than themselves, and most traordinary and sagaeious creatnI that inhabit the oceans depths. Fr July to November two schools killers may be seen every day. ejH cruising to and fro across the entrs of the bay or engaged in a Titanic c1 bat with whale-a right" whas "humpback" or the long, swift as back" But they have never ba known to tackle the great sperm wbsI except when the great creature N been wounded by his human enemi. And to witness one of these mlgtl struggles is worth travelling msH thousand miles to see; it is terrjbE overlapping and wonderful.
 The killer ranges in length from x feet to twenty-five feet. Their breaI ing apparatus and general anatomy much similar to that of the sps whale. They spout, "breach" sI sound" like other cetaceans, and sA of the same migratory habit as the tI schools" which haunt Two-fold bA always leaving there about NovenlH 2S to cruise In other seas, returning their headquarters early in July, vhI the humpback and fnback whale msl their appearance on the coast of N4 South Wales, travelling northward the breeding-grounds on the BampN shoals, the coast of New Guinea aA the Moluccas.
 The head of the killer is of enorms strength, the mouth being armed both jaws with fearful teeth, from inches to three inches long and 5 rather widely apart. h color t show an extraordinary variation, So being all one hue-brown, black or d gray; others are black, with large regular patches or streaks of p white or yellow; others are dark bra with black and yellow patches.
 And now comes the curious and x absolutely truly described part a the killers play in this ocean trags The killers, the moment the whah dead, close around him, and, fasten their teeth into his body, bear him < the bottom. Here they tear out tongue and eat about one-third of N blubber. In about thirty-six to fos hours the carcass will rise again to M surface, and as the spot where he N been taken down has been markedT a buoy, the boats are ready waiting < tow him ashore to the trying works. The killers accompany boats to the head of the bay and RI off the sharks, which otherwise woH strip off all the remaining blubber E fore the body had reached the shores
 The killers never hurt a man. TiN after time have boats been stove in a smashed into splinters by a whale, s the crew left struggling in the watA to be rescued by the pickup" bd < and the killers swim up to them lo4 at-aye, and smell them-but neE touch them. And wherever the kiI are, the sharks are not, for Jack Sha& dreads a killer as the devil dreads h@ water. Jack" will rush in and rip oiF piece of blubber if he can, but he watch his chance to do so.