HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WHALE FISHERY. 

 sailing from American ports — Continued. 



301 



Whaling- 

 grouud. 



Atlantic , 

 ....do ... 



Pacific Ocean. 



....do 



Mexico 



Atlantic < 



Pacific Ocean. 



....do 



Atlantic 



Pacific Ocean. 

 West Indies . . 

 Pacific Ocean. 



....do 



....do 



....do 



....do 



...do 



Atlantic 



South Coast .. 

 Pacific Ocean. 

 South Coast. .- 



Pacific Oo<'an. 

 ....do 



Pacific Ocean. 

 ...do 



Pacific Ocean. 

 ....do 



Sonth A tlantic 



....do.. 



"West'n Islands 

 Indian Ocean. 



West'n Islands Apr. 19 

 South Atlantic May 9 

 West'n Islands Apr. 19 



May 23 

 July 27 



June 27 

 Aug. 31 

 May - 



June 12 

 Nov. 14 

 Oct. 4 

 Nov. 17 

 July 20 

 July 27 

 Oct. 6 

 Nov. 18 



Juno 1 



Nov. 24 

 Jan. 15 

 Juno 11 

 Aug. 15 

 July 4 

 Ausr. 10 

 Aug. 21 

 May 17 



Nov. 17 

 Aug. 25 



Sept. 5 

 Dec. 27 



Dec. 12 

 Dec. 22 



May 29 

 June 27 

 Apr. 2 



Pacific Ocean.. 

 South Atlantic 



South Atlantic 



Brazil 



South Atlantic 



July 19 



June — 



Jan. 

 Jan. 



Mar. 3,1835 



Nov. 16, 1836 

 July 31, 1837 



Sept. 17, 1833 

 Aug. 15, 1836 



Mar. 13, 1835 

 Oct. 13,1836 

 Sept. 14, 1834 



Apr. 10, 1836 



Apr. 19, 1837 

 Mar. 3,1836 

 June 8,1836 

 Jan. 8, 1837 



—,18.35 



Aug. 29, 1833 

 Jan. 26, 1837 

 July 20, 1833 



May 14,1837 

 Nov. 2,1836 



Dec. 18,1836 



Feb. 2,1837 

 Sept. 13, 1837 



Apr. 21, 1834 

 Apr. — , 1835 

 Nov. 12, 1833 

 June 11, 1834 



Oct. 10,1833 

 Nov. 12, 1833 

 Oct. 10,1833 



Dec. 14,1836 

 Apr. — , 1835 



May 14, 1834 



Result of voyage 



Bbls. 



280 



1,408 

 863 



1,177 



149 



1,885 

 100 



3,09" 



666 



980 



2,904 



2,615 



43 



1,180 



20 



1,406 

 2, 212 



1, 850 



350 



200 

 275 



250 

 90 



250 



nbis. 



1,040 



1,335 



176 

 696 

 20 



850 

 1, 300 



1,500 



Lbs. 



Remarks. 



Came home leaky ; broken np at Nan- 

 tucket, 1835. 



Sailed in search of whales, sea-serpents, &c. ; 

 was armed with a patent harpoon charged 

 with poison.* 



The Hazard probably arrived in Septem- 

 ber; sailed again in October; returned 

 again September 9, 1834, with 225 sperm. 



15 whale. 



Loston Starbuck's Island, with 1,800 sperm. 



Built at Mattapoisett, 1833. 



Second mate died. 



Burned at sea January 31, 1835 ; supposed 



to have been fired by one of the crew. 

 Fir.st mate, E. Burditt, taken down by a 



foul line November, 1833. 



Captain Brown came home sick. 

 Built at Mattapoisett, 1833. 



Sailed again July 26 ; returned September 

 1, clean. 



Condemned and sold at Bayta, August, 1835. 

 Took 50 barrels ambergris ; third mate 



killed by a whale, 1834 ; bonghtfromNew 



York, 1833. 



Built at Mattapoisett, 1833. 



Sailed under Captain Taber, who came 

 homesick, 1834 ; added from Ijoston, 1833. 



poison into them from the barb of the harpoon, with such an effect as, it is said, filled the men with 

 invented in Nantucket is somewhat uncertain. The islanders have claimed that it was iirior to thj 

 leads by two years. 

 1733 (vol. ii, p. 70). 



