[Journals], 1908-1912
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out of the water - Killers came and chased me out to one side. This one came up with his whole head out of water & was then so bewildered that it ran squarely into the ship, nothing was injured. Devil fish are the most irregular in their movements of all whales. The spout will vary from absolutely nothing to a column 15 ft high & almost as big as a Humphback. One day Capt. Wilson saw a bunch of Killers about fifteen and twenty for about fifteen miles without annoy killed a whale. He had not seen a Killer since the school fifteen miles away but in a very short time he saw the high fires in the distance and the Killers came for his whale as straight as an arrow. Whether or not they were the first whove he saw he could not tell. They came alongside and at once tried to get at the tongue of his dead whale, but just tiny their snouts against its mouth & by putting on full speed with their tails force the mouth open. One of them smashed in the ront of its ship & it it with his flukes. He shot one into head with his six mm. Krag rifle and killed it at once