WALTER NOBLE BURNS
Illustrated with Photographs
NEW YORK
OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY
MCMXIII
Copyright, 1913, BY
OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY
All rights reserved
[CONTENTS]
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | The Lure of the Outfitter | [11] |
| II. | The Men of the "Alexander" | [21] |
| III. | Why We Don't Desert | [33] |
| IV. | Turtles and Porpoises | [46] |
| V. | The A, B, C of Whales | [59] |
| VI. | The Night King | [71] |
| VII. | Dreams of Liberty | [83] |
| VIII. | Gabriel's Little Drama | [95] |
| IX. | Through the Roaring Forties | [107] |
| X. | In the Ice | [118] |
| XI. | Cross Country Whaling | [128] |
| XII. | Cutting In and Trying Out | [137] |
| XIII. | Shaking Hands with Siberia | [149] |
| XIV. | Moonshine and Hygiene | [162] |
| XV. | News From Home | [171] |
| XVI. | Slim Goes on Strike | [182] |
| XVII. | Into the Arctic | [191] |
| XVIII. | Blubber and Song | [198] |
| XIX. | A Narrow Pinch | [210] |
| XX. | A Race and a Race Horse | [219] |
| XXI. | Bears for a Change | [230] |
| XXII. | The Stranded Whale | [239] |
| XXIII. | And So—Home | [247] |
[ILLUSTRATIONS]
| "Cutting Out" a Whale | [Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE | |
| In Bowhead Waters | [16] |
| When Whaling is an Easy Job | [40] |
| Waiting for the Whale to Breach | [72] |
| Unalaska | [112] |
| Waiting for the Floes to Open | [120] |
| "Trying Out" | [144] |
| Callers From Asia | [152] |
| Peter's Sweetheart | [160] |
| Eskimos Summer Hut at St. Lawrence Bay | [168] |
| At the Gateway to the Arctic | [176] |
| Hoisting the Blubber Aboard | [184] |
| Our Guests Coming Aboard in St. Lawrence Bay | [192] |
| The Lip of a Bowhead Whale | [208] |
| A Close Call Off Herald Island | [216] |
| Skin Boat of the Siberian Eskimos | [240] |