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| 20 | 160 | View more quotes about sometimes">Sometimes two or three years pass without a whale being taken. |
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| 20 | 157 | "Yes," said Imnak. |
| 20 | 158 | Two weeks ago, some ten to fifteen sleeps ago, by rare fortune, we had managed to harpoon a baleen whale, a bluish, white-spotted blunt fin. |
| 20 | 159 | That two whales had been taken in one season was rare hunting, indeed. |
| 20 | 160 | Sometimes two or three years pass without a whale being taken. |
| 20 | 161 | "It is good," said Imnak, looking at the meat racks. |
| 20 | 162 | "It may be that this winter the families will not have to go out on the ice". |
| 20 | 163 | Ice hunting can be dangerous, of course. |