MOST VALUABLE MEAT IN WORLD
Fishermen at Gordon’s Bay, a small seaside resort 50 miles from Capetown, have eaten the most valuable meat in the world—whale steak valued at several pounds a pound. A small whale was washed up on the beach badly injured. It was immediately killed and cut up. Dr E. L. Gill, the Director of the South African Museum, identified it from a Press photograph and from a few bones he was able to rescue as a specimen of the very rare pigmy whale (neobalaena), of which the world’s museums contain only one complete specimen. Its value was probably several hundred pounds. The fisherfolk are doing penance by watching the coastline to see if the whale’s mate is washed up.
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Evening Star, Issue 22631, 24 April 1937, Page 7
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123MOST VALUABLE MEAT IN WORLD Evening Star, Issue 22631, 24 April 1937, Page 7
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