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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1962Vol. XXXII, No. 9

Not Quite

p. 105 · Read in the full issue

‘Moby Dick’

rst lasso your whale . . . j not a popular recipe, but is what was done in Betio hour, Tarawa, on February when two launches led a ing chase into the harbour i after a seven-foot pygmy le. The lasso was not made to one of the launches

kly enough, apparently, and

whale pulled several men the harbour first. But finally, our report, “the whale was hied with a quick tow round harbour.” What happened we haven’t heard.