Got Away
p. 113 · Read in the full issue
The Whale That Got Away
he death in November of last man in Rarotonga >wn to have harpooned a lie from an open boat —in I —brought back memories a lot of people, s elsewhere in the Islands, ilemeat is looked on there as 'are delicacy, so when the aI e was harpooned off rangi, the coconut radio zkly passed the word, he whale kept to the sur z and headed round the coast, \ all along the route the ners unhitched their horses n their ploughs, snatched up ves and sacks, and joined the cession. But disaster came off tavera, 10 miles from the *ting point, when the whale ke loose and disappeared idly seaward. l inner was off. All hands it back to work —and they l en’t tasted whalemeat since!