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Updated: May 27, 2025
Day after day, three months at a time, warm or cold, not daring to light fires on the island, the Aleut hunters go out to the spearing-surround, till the schooner returns for them from the main post; and whether the hunt is harder on man or beast may be judged from the fact that where the hunting battalions used to rally out in companies of thousands, they to-day go forth only in twenties and forties.
But while the spearing-surround was chiefly followed in battalions under the direction of a trading company, the clubbing was done by the individuals the dauntless hunters, who scudded out in twos and threes in the wake of the blast, lost themselves in the shattering sheets of spray, with the wind screaming mad riot in their ears and the roily rollers running a mill-race against tide and wind.
Whoever saw the little round black head bob above the surface of the water, shot, and the surf wash carried in the dead body. If the weather was dead calm, fog or clear, bands of twenty and thirty men deployed in a circle to spear their quarry. This was the spearing-surround.
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