ATE WHALE
DEAD FOUR YEARS. SYDNEY, September 13. Sir Hubert Wilkins will not eat penguins because he thinks they are almost-human, but— , He once made a meal from a whale that lia.d been dead four years 1 Whale flesh of tliht mature age was eaten in the Arctic by i Sir Hubert’s last party when rations j ran out. The Polar explorer told of this experience during a talk over national broadcasting stations yesterday. “We were travelling over a particularly desolate section of the Arctic,” he said. had been short "for weeks. “But our spirits rose when we came upon the body of a whale lying in the ice. “We set to work on it immediately, and did not stop to cook any of;the flesh. . .“Some days later we ,came upon a. white trapper, who said that he had killed the whale four years before.,”
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1938, Page 3
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