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FORTUNE IN PORPOISES.
Many ot«$8fR White Cetacean* Fre
«nenTviP%' Gulf of St. Lawrence,
and Are Valnable.
American tourists crossing the St.
f Lawrence from the mouth of the Sague
nay can almost always enjoy thei&ight of
a number of porpoises disporting them
selves upon the water in the neighbor- \
hood of Tadoussac, says the New York
Sun. The great white cetaceans appear ’
like shapeless masses of blubber as their
arched backs show from time to time
above the surface. They are doubtless
attracted to the mouth of the Saguenay
j by the large number of salmon which en
ter the river throughout the season.
| A large industry is expected soon to
spring up in various parts of the Gulf of i
St. Lawrence in connection with the
j hunting of porpoises. It has already I
been attempted upon a small scale, but |
the difficulty of capturing any great
number of the animals has stood in the
way of success. Now the difficulty has j
| been overcome through the observations i
and experiments of" Campbell McNab, a
Canadian hunter, who has spent many
years in the study of these animals.
The adult porpoise.of the St. Lawrence j
and the North Atlantic ocean is from
12 to 18 feet in length. It somewhat re- !
semblesi a dolphin in shape, with large j
dorsal fin.and a mouth armed with many !
strong and sharp teeth. Each porpoise ;
is believed to eat from one. to three bar
; rels of fish a day, so that it is difficult |
to estimate the frightful ravages which
| they make among the salmon, the her- I
| ring and the cod. They are largely gre
■ garious, though they often hunt their j
t'prey in couples. Mr. McNab has often
1 peered over the edge of an overhanging
rock to watch them catch salmon at the
mouth of a stream and sometimes a long
distance up a river, where, they follow
their prey. They chase a salmon into a
shallow and then two approach it from
either side. The salmon appears un-!
able to move, as if paralyzed with fear.
If he attempts to rush from one of his
pursuers he falls into the open mouth of
, the other.
j The porpoise is equally expert in fish- |
Ing for the slippery eel. Mr. McNab
rtnonoH ono thp«p animals thp nthPT* I
day and found more than 40 eels in Its
stomach. To prevent their wriggling,
and to aid digestion, the porpoise cracks
the skull of the eel between its teeth be
fore swallowing it.
Like the eel, the porpoise can live, a
long time out of the water. In fact, it is
virtually amphibious. Some time ago
Mr. McNab shot a number of the ani
mals which had been hauled ashore and
bound together by their tails. After
skinning another lot at tome distance
and taking out the blubber, he turned a
few days later to the lot which had been
last shot. Unknown to him one had not
been killed outright. As he passed in
front of it it growled at him “likea dog."
he says, and opened its jaws to snap him.
: • The porpoises are captured by being
imprisoned at low tide on the shoals,
over which they have journeyed when
the tide was high, in pursuit of their
prey. Hitherto the difficulty has been to
find any barrier strong enough to retain
such enormously strong, heavy beasts,
and so many of them together as are
sometimes enclosed. Mr. McNab has
made the interesting discovery that the
| enormous nets through which they often
i broke are not necessary to hold back
the brutes. They are unable to stand the
slightest vibration in the water, and so
all that the hunter now finds necessary is
I to fasten a long thin pole like a fishing
rod to a stake in the mouth of the
Stream, the bay or the estuary within
which it is desired to retain the por
| poises. They remain to be stranded and
killed upon the shallows rather than ven
ture past the vibrating rod.
This sensitiveness is believed to have
Its seat in the ear of the animal, which
has so small an opening that it might
i almost have been made with a pin. For
years McNab has held firmly to this
theory, only to be laughed at for his
1 pains. He has now proved it beyond
peradventure, and has reaped the fruit
I . , . _11_ A i-knw
I m Hits OiDlUHOO. ~ ”
day he secured 69 of the animals on the
shoals of the Portneuf river a few miles
below Tadoussac, and next year will
pursue operations there upon a larger
scale. He has secured a nine year lease
of the shoal from the government and
has apparently a fortune within easy
reach. The skin and oil from a single
porpoise are worth from ?30 to ?50.
The utmost caution has to be taken
not to drive the animals away from their
haunts. If any of the blood or refuse of
their dead is permitted to reach the wa
ter, Mr. McNab declares, they will de
sert the place entirely. This is the ex
planation he gives of the present absence
of porpoises from the River Ouelle and
! other places on the banks of the St. Law
rence, where a few years ago many of
them were annually killed. The por
poise, he says, is one of the most intelli
fent animals created.
Unprotected Port.
The reputation of a house often de
pends upon the manner of packing as
much as on the merchandise itself.
Goods for Manila should be packed with
special care. The port is unprotected
and the sea is often very rough, mak
ing unloading at such times impossible.
Transfer is made by natives in small
boats from a point two miles distant
These boats are tossed about by the
| slightest agitation of the water.
No Need for Worry.
Mrs. Homer—John, if Mrs. Neighbors
gets a new sealskin sack this winter I
must have one also.
Homer—Well, don't worry about it,
dear. Neighbors and I formed a protec
tive union to-day, and neither of you
is to have one.—Chicago Daily News.
Foreigner* in Jsipan.
A foreigner cannot own land in Japan,
i although a number of foreigners may
. organize themselves into a company, to
j be known and registered as a “judicial
' person,’’ and this company has all the
property rights of a native citizen.
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