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towers above the modern factory at Porto Pirn. Near the summit of this bold eminence, commanding 

 the southern prospect at a height of 400 ft., there is isolated the little church of the Senhora de 

 Monte da Guia, patron saint of the whalemen. The vigia is the vestry of this church. 



Fig. 5. Open boat whaling in Fayal. Look-outs and their arcs of search. The numbers refer to Table 5. 



The manning of a look-out varies according to its importance : the watch may consist of one, two 

 or three men, and the look-outs are manned all the year around from dawn to four or five o'clock in 

 the afternoon. If a blow were raised at some later hour the whalemen could not in general expect to 

 kill before nightfall. With good visibility and little wind, the likeliest time for raising a whale is that 

 period of low level light between dawn and sunrise : the whaling returns show that a good number of 

 whales are sighted around six in the morning. Powerful binoculars are employed, some of them with 

 magnifications up to thirty diameters. According to Senhor Tomas Alberto de Azevedo it is possible 



