travell in two or three but often singly; frequently also schools of six or seven or more will [illegible] appear. Attacked by Killers Several whales were lost in at the states with their tongues at the tips bitten & eaten away. They even unmistakably marks of teeth and in [illegible] several instances bites had been taken out of the lips, it was on this the work of killers asked Capt. Melsons about it. He said that without doubt it was so. The Killers appear- antly cause these whales a great deal of trouble and frighten them greatly when ever they appear. Capt. Melson says he sees the killers after gray whales very frequently and that the whales are almost helpless from fright. The Killers will put their noses against the lips of the whale, put on full speed with their tails and try to force open the mouth of its accursed. I should have been inclined to doubt this but after seeing the tongues eaten as I have, the story seems prob- able. Eventually the killers got at the tongues in some way and it is not likely that the whales would open their mouths if they could help it. The