The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 131, February, 1909

The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 131, February, 1909Another instalment of a fascinating budget of adventure...
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The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 131, February, 1909

The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 131, February, 1909

€6,25

The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 131, February, 1909

€6,25
Author: Various
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 131, February, 1909

Another instalment of a fascinating budget of adventure narratives. This month we publish accounts of a fight to the death between a whale and a school of thresher sharks; a nest-robbers terrible battle with an infuriated mother-eagle; and the nerve-trying experience which befell a Surrey cyclist while out for a Saturday afternoon spin. Early on the morning of August 14th last, while engaged in building new quarters for the lighthouse-keeper at Breaksea Island, near Rottnest, Western Australia, the contractor and his men noticed a bull whale, with a cow and calf, passing the island some distance off. They watched them with interest for awhile, noting the immense size of the two parents and the methodical regularity with which columns of water rose from their blowholes, and then resumed their labours. An hour or so laterabout nine oclock, to be exactthe men were startled by an extraordinary noise, apparently coming from the eastern end of the island, a noise unlike anything they had ever heard before. Dropping their tools and staring towards the east, they beheld such a sight as it falls to the lot of few people to witness. There, not five hundred yards from the shore, was being waged a battle to the deatha fight between the great cow whale previously seen and a school of thresher sharks. The calf was swimming about distractedly, but the old bull had disappeared, having basely deserted his family at the first approach of danger. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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