TAR WHALE'S BELLOW.
[To THE EDITOR OP THR SPECTATOR...]
SIR,—In the Spectator of November 16th there is a review of Mr. Charles Roberts's "Babes of the Wild," in the course of which you challenge his remark about "a whale breaking into a deep booming bellow," and say that neither he nor anyone else could ever have heard such a thing. Here on the shores of False Bay we see not infrequent whale hunts, and last month a cow-whale of the right species was harpooned close inshore. When struck the creature emitted a series of deep bellows or roars. This noise is said to be produced, not by the mouth, but through the blowholes, which are choked with blood. Whatever the cause, the effect is exactly as described by Mr. Roberts.—I am, Sir, &c., B. M. B.
Kalk Bay, South Africa.
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