Pelorous Jack.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue XIII, 28 September 1901, Page 596

Pelorous Jack.

You cannot travel by any steamer running l on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand without hearing of Pelorus Jack, and the chances are that vou will see him. He

is not a man. as his name might suggest. but a whale—a white whale —or “something very like a whale.” and he has his residence in the vicinity of Pelorus Sound and the French Pass. Jack is a sociable fish, who makes it

a point of meeting every vessel going through the Pass, and accompanying it some distance on its way. His white form, some 14 feet long, is a familiar object to those who navigate this coast. The accompanied photograph taken, and kindly lent to us by Colonel the Hon. A. Pitt, is an enlargement from a snapshot which was obtained from on boar 1 the Afapourika.