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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1360, 10 February 1912, Page 14

The whale, which for a century faWy held its own against tho harpoon and the wooden sailing ship, is apparently doomed'to extinction with the extension of new methods of whale-hunting. AVithin two years eight ste.el steamers armed with powerful machine trims nave beqim to hunt the whales of the North J'acilic, and five additional si ram whalers are now under conMruction. 'J'hrse are primarily destroyers: they do nut Irv out the nil a- the. old whnle.rs did, but kill (.lie whaies with cxplo.-ivp thells ,iml (hen tow Ihe. carca>?ei to a central station, where the work of getting out the oil, jtkileboftc, etc, is .done to. a Jae;e, stale.