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men and boys; the number of harpoons taken out are 100, 

 lances 36, lines 28, boats 5. 



7. Do you make a point of putting into any harbours in the 

 course of the voyage ? 



An. Sometimes at the Cape de Verd Islands ; at the Bra- 

 zils and Falkland Islands ; at the Gallipagoes, Marquesas, 

 and other Islands in the Pacific ; at New Zealand, Botany 

 Bay, Lima, Valparisso, Conception, Paita, Quiaquil ; which 

 places are visited for procuring hogs, goats, fruit, and other 

 refreshments, at an easy expence, 



8. What kind of provisions do you chiefly use ? 



An. Beef, pork, bread, flour, pease, barley, and oatmeal. 



9. Do you carry out a sufliciency of provisions for a whole 

 voyage ? or do you depend upon getting a replenish during 

 your absence from home ? 



An. A sufficient quantity of provisions and stores for serv- 

 ing the whole voyage is always taken out. 



10. Do yo\i practise the same method of capture in your 

 attacks on both the right whale and the sperm whale .-' 



An. Invariably the same. 



11. Which of the two do you reckon the most dangerous 

 to attack, the spemi whale or the right whale ? 



An. There appears to be little difference : but both species 

 of whales, generally speaking, are more active and dangerous 

 in the tropical regions than they are in the Arctic seas ; they 

 therefore require more address in attacking, and caution in 

 killing them, other\vise casualties, sometimes of a serious na- 

 ture, would be innumerable. 



12. ^Vhich of the animals that you attack are the swift- 

 est ? 



An. The sulphur-bottom, (probably either tlie B. physalis, 

 or B. musculiis), appears to be the swiftest of the whale kind. 



13. Is it usual for ships to fit out for both the fishery of 

 the sperm and the right whale ? 



An. Ships, when fitted for the sperm-fishery, arc adapted 

 for taking any other kind of whale. 



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