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<p>[Page 77]</p><p>realised that it was too impure and thus practically useless. Instead of the big profit we had envisaged the camp had to shell out £30-40 for wages, firewood, etc. One consequence of the whale enterprise is that more sharks than ever are coming into the bay. The animals must have a very well-developed underwater sense of smell to appear here in such big numbers. During high tide they manage to swim right up to the whale and yank chunks of meat from his body. We and the Australian fisherman have begun laying out shark traps and even caught 3 of the thieves. A medium-size shark recently almost ended up stranded in the sand, just like the whale, and we saw it swim frantically back and forth in the shallow water, looking for an escape. The Australian fisherman, who happened to be in camp, immediately pounced on it, grabbing its tail fin, but could not hold on long enough for the comrades to get back from camp with clubs and bars</p>