Gilmore WHITE WHALE "Beluga" D 1931 Point Hope, Alaska, Arctic Ocean. Aug. 2. While I have been at the seider camp & thereabout for the past 4-5 days I have seen many white whales, 50 or so all told. They swim close along the shore in a westward direction, and generally in schools of a dozen. When killer whales are present farther out, the Belugas swim within a few feet of the beach, and are easily killed from the beach with rifles. In fact the natives hunt them this way. When a school swims along, the Eskimo on lookout, who is always seated on the tundra bank next to the beach, sounds a warning & runs to the water's edge followed by every other man who has the opportunity to grab up his rifle & join in the hunt. The natives strung along the beach for distky miles ahead of & parallel to the swimming whales & everytime one sizes close to the shore they let a volley go at its head. A pool of blood on the surface