Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

That whales have found for themselves a northwest passage, is proven by the fact that whales have been captured in the North Pacific having harpoons that were thrown into them on the other side of the continent, says the San Francisco Bulletin. Captain Bauldry, of the Helen Mar. took a right whale having in it a large flint harpoon, supposed to have been put in by natives of Cape Batherst, or the regions beyond the mouth of the Mackenzie river, because the natives on this side never use such weapons, but always bone or iron. Ten years ago the Adeline Gibbs took a whale in the Arctic with an iron in it which has been thrown the same season in the Hudson Bay; this was known to be so because the iron bore the mark of a ship at the time whaling in Hudson Bay.