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...painting, a protective rainbow encloses the picture on the North, West and South. The East (at top here) is left open, because good influences come from that direction. In the center of the painting is a sacred cornstalk, growing from what the Navajos call a "Shapen Cloud." Four benevolent Humpback deities stand at the outer edges, carrying staffs and black clouds filled with the fruits of the earth. Grouped around the cornstalk are eight gods and goddesses gathering healing pollen. On the north are the roundheaded earth gods, black and red, with white-coated, oblong-headed goddesses. On the south...
...villages for the southwest wind to bring the rains of June. One-sixth of the earth's people, with their 225 languages, their 2,300 castes and 39 provinces, are living through their ancient order of life, not touching the 44,000,000 untouchables, not harming the sacred humpback cattle, not marrying outside their caste, not permitting the shadow of a European or an outcaste to fall upon their persons or their food...
Lieutenant Midtlyng had known little about whaling when he boarded the Frango, but reported that he soon had reason to believe that the crew were violating the law. He said they brought in humpback whales shorter than 35 feet and whales which were nursing their young. Although the crew had insisted at the outset that they were experts at telling the length of a whale in the water, they now argued: "It's difficult to tell how long they are." Then they told him that they found the whales "dead and floating." When Midtlyng pointed out that the dead...
...reason, the "run" of salmon dwindles sharply. Important are these members of the salmon family: King, or Chinook (Pacific coast, bright, arterial red flesh, averages 22 Ibs.); Red or Sockeye (Alaskan, dark red flesh, 6 Ibs.) ; Coho or Silver (Pacific and Alaskan, light red flesh, 7 Ibs.); Pink or Humpback (Alaskan, pinkish flesh, 4 Ibs.); Chum or Keta (Alaskan, colorless flesh, 8 pounds). For every King, silver or Chum salmon that leaps into a can this spring there will leap (approximately) three Red and four Pink salmon...
Antarctic Humpback Whale...