31 JULY 1920, Page 16

THE THRESHER AND THE WHALE.

(To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sts,—Re Mr. Robert Gray's letter in your issue of July 17th, we have in our employ a man named James Capps, who was on the S.S. ' Dacia,' a cable-laying vessel of London, in February, 1893, when the captain stopped the vessel off the St. Vincent Islands to enable all on board to witness a fight to the finish between a thresher and a whale, and distinctly remembers the whale floating dead on the top of the water