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' affair of oil ' ashore at New Bedford in 1760, or even on a Spitzbergen beach in the early seventeenth 

 century, must have been little different from a present-day scene in Pico or San Jorge or Terceira. 

 It will indeed be seen that in four of the islands certain old ' try-works ' stations have been replaced by 



Table 1. Sperm whales. Annual catches for the world and for the Azores from 19 10 to 1949 



This table has been prepared from the Azores catch figures in Table 10, and from world figures in the Norsk Hvalfangsttid. 

 1948, p. 312, and 1950, pp. 360, 560. The Antarctic catch figures are included in the year completing a southern summer 

 season, for example, the world catch for 1949 includes the Antarctic catch for 1948-9. In the Norsk Hvalfangsttid. 1948, 

 p. 312, figures were not available from 'Coast of Spain, Portugal and the Azores' for the earlier years 1910-19 and 1928-32; 

 accordingly the Azores totals are added to the world catch in these years. Where the catch from ' Coast of Spain, Portugal 

 and the Azores' has been shown as less than the actual Azores catch, there the world figures have been increased by the 

 difference. For 1925-7 the Sperm whale catch from Setubal is added. These adjustments have made substantial changes 

 in the published world catches of the earlier years, particularly 1910-23 when the changes would have been greater still had 

 there been included the catches of the twenty or thirty Sperm whaleships still sailing in that period (see Table i, and Plate XIII). 



