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STOUY OF CAPTAIX HUNTING. 07
A GAME FtLLOW.
were picked up Ijy tlie Ijoat wliicli had taken the first lijt to the skip ; two
of the men liad climbed on liis Ijack, and he didn't seem to mind them.
He kept on chewing away at the oars, sails, masts, planks, and other fragments
of the boats ; and whenever anything touched his body, he turned
and munched away at it. There he was with six harpoons in him, and
each harpoon had three hundred fathoms of line attached to it. Captain
Hunting got out two spare boats, and started with them and the saved
boat to renew the figlit. He got alongside aiid sent a bomb-lance
charged with six inelies of powder right into the ^\-hale"s vitals, just back
of his fin. When the lance was fired, he turned and tore through the
Ijoat like a hurricane, scattering everything. The snn was setting, four
boats were gone with all their gear and twelve hundred fathoms of line,
the spare boats were poorly provided, the men wore wearied and dis-
couraged, and Captain Hunting hauled off and admitted himself beaten
l>y a M'liale."
The nondescript individual whom we saw among the passengers early
ill the voyage Iiad joined the party, and heard the story of Captain Hunt-