40 THE WHALEMAN ; OR, 



Whales were in sight several days in succession, 

 but we could not lower, on account of rugged 

 weather. In lat. 47° S. a ship was discovered 

 with her boats down in pursuit of whales ; came 

 up with her ; lowered for right whales, and 

 chased them for an hour or more, but took none. 

 At this time we spoke with the ship Columbus 

 again, with one of her boats fastened to a whale. 

 She had one boat stoven. 



Passed St. Felix Islands, on the coast of Chili, 

 and sighted the Gallipagos. In crossing the 

 equator, it was calm for twenty-seven days, and 

 but little progress was made during that time. 

 On the 20th of April, 1852, after a passage of 

 more than five months from New Bedford, we 

 entered the port of Hilo. 



Hilo is a port on the Island of Hawaii, one of 

 the cluster of islands in the North Pacific Ocean 

 called Sandwich Islands. They were discovered 

 by Captains Cook and King in 1778, who gave 

 them their present name, in honor of the first 

 lord of the admiralty. The group consists of ten 

 islands, but all of them are not inhabited ; they 

 extend from lat. 18° 50' to 22° 20' N., and from 

 Ion. 154° 53' to 160° 15' W., lying about one 

 third of the distance from the western coast of 

 Mexico to the eastern coast of China. By the 

 census of 1849, the population of seven of the 



