214 MARINE MAMMALS OF THE NORTH-WESTERN COAST. 
was scattered around the world, plying upon the well-known cruising -grounds, 
which were familiarly named as follow : 
Sperm Whale Grounds : Atlantic Ocean and contiguous waters.— Around the Azores 
or Western Islands ; about the Cape de Verde Islands ; the Charleston Grounds ; 
north of the Bahama Islands ; in the Gulf of Mexico ; in the Caribbean Sea ; about 
the West India Islands ; on the coast of Africa ; and the Carrol Ground, which is a 
space of ocean situated between the island of St. Helena and the coast of Africa. 
Sperm Whale Grounds: Indian Ocean and neighboring waters. — To the south of 
Madagascar, and between that island and Africa ; off the northern end of Mada- 
gascar ; along the coast of Arabia, including the mouth of the Red Sea ; on the 
coast of Java; Malacca Straits; on the north-western coast of Australia; on the 
southern coast of Australia, and between it and Tasmania or Van Dieman's Land. 
Sperm Whale Grounds: Pacific Ocean and adjacent icaters. — The On-shore Ground, 
which includes the whole extent of ocean between the southern boundary of Chile 
and the northern limits of Peru, and west to the island of Juan Fernandez and the 
Gallapagos group ; the Off- shore Ground, which extends to latitude 5° and 10° 
south of the equator, and from longitude 90 3 to 120° west ; off Cape Horn ; around 
the Sandwich Islands ; in the vicinity of the Society Islands ; in the vicinity of the 
Fiji Islands ; in the vicinity of the Navigator Islands ; about the King's Mill 
group ; about and to the south of the equator, from the coast of Ecuador to the 
King's Mill group ; across the South Pacific between the latitudes of 21° and 27° ; 
across the North Pacific between the latitudes of 27° and 35° ; off the Bashee 
Islands ; off the east coast of New Zealand ; on the Middle Ground between Aus- 
tralia and New Zealand ; Sooloo Sea ; China Sea ; on the coast of Japan, and 
between it and the Bouin Islands; on the North-western Coast of America; on the 
coast of Upper and Lower California. Sperm Whales are also found in as high lati- 
tudes as 00° south and 50° to G0° north. All these whaling -grounds, it will be 
seen, were the resorting -places of the Sperm Whales, and consequently of their 
captors, nearly all of them being in the temperate or tropical latitudes ; but the 
Right Whales' feeding -grounds are chiefly in the colder regions, although some of 
their resorts were upon coasts or banks in common with their congeners. The 
principal grounds, however, of the Right and Polar Whales were designated as fol- 
lows : 
Northern Right Whale Grounds : Including those of the Bowhead or Polar Whale. 
— On the Atlantic coast of North America, from Newfoundland south to the Bahama 
Islands; on the North-western Coast of North America, which includes Behring Sea; 
on the coast of Kamschatka ; the Okhotsk Sea ; the Japan Sea ; the Gulf of Tar- 
