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who immediately flock together and establish their headguarters around and near it, where they remain feasting and fattening until not a vistage of its flesh remains At one time Our hunting party passing along a well beaten trail running paralel with the beach between Port Orford & Rogue River was attracted in a certain direction by a powerful stench, and moving in that direction to ascertain from whence it arose, discovered on the beach the huge carcass of a half unknown whale surrounded by groups of squallid and greasy looking diggers Bucks, Squaws & papooses, who, at sight of us gave a sudden alarm & fled to the bluffs a short distance back. From a large opening in the whales belly at least a dozen Indians of all sizes made their exit and run through the sand like frightened Rabbits to gain a more secluded hiding place among the rocks and cliffs near by. After viewing the putrid mass of corruption before us for a time, one of the