PLATE XVIII 



Fig. i. Spare try-pot with whalecraft in the try-house at Porto do 

 Castelo, Santa Maria. 23 June 1949. The whalecraft from left to 

 right are: blubber fork; two scarfing spades; leaning spade; bone 

 spade; leaning spade; boat spade and blubber pike. A bjjiler lies 

 across the pot; an (unmounted) scrap dipper lies at the foot of 

 the pot on the left. 



Fig. 2. Try-works at Lagens do Pico. 24 August 1949. Open try- 

 works with two pots. Note the main cooler with second and third 

 coolers behind it. 



Fig. 3. Corner of the try-house at Porto do Castelo, Santa Maria. 

 23 June 1949. Blubber tubs and mincing tubs beside a heap of 

 scraps. 



Fig. 4. Scrimshaw tooth of the nineteenth century believed to have 

 been engraved by a Portuguese whaleman (p. 348). 



Fig. 5. Festa dos baleieros at Porto Pirn, Horta, Fayal, on Sunday, 

 7 August 1949. Blessing a whaleboat: the whaleline is knotted 

 round the Saint. 



Fig. 6. Festa dos baleieros. Beflagged whaleboats each dressed with 

 harpoons and lance. 



