240 THIRD WHALE LOST DURINO THE SEASON. 



ours clone for us, yielded in the neighborhood of one 

 Imndrcd barrels of oil: the whales of this ccround 

 all averaging about the same quantity. They are 

 larger, in general, than I have seen them in lower 

 latitudes, besides being alwaj's in better condition 

 than when found in a warmer climate, and their 

 blubber on the application of heat almost wdiolly 

 dissolvins: into oil. 



On the 19th we again saw the same school. At 5 

 o'clock in the afternoon the waist-boat fastened, was 

 stoven by the whale's ilukes, and her crew obliged to 

 swim for their lives, when they were picked up by 

 the starboard-boat, and carried to the ship. The 

 other boat then went on to the whale, and her boat- 

 steerer darted at him half-a-dozen times in succes- 

 sion, but without etiect. Night approaching, we were 

 compelled to desist. Earl}- the next morning we saw 

 a large whale alone — lowered, and the waist-boat 

 fostened. She continued attached for some time, 

 when, her line being nearly run out, the larboard 

 boat's was bent on to it. B}' mistake, a line that 

 liad been exposed to the weather, had been put into 

 the waist-boat, in lieu of her line that was carried 

 off the day before. The mate, finding that his own 

 line was fast running out, attached a drug to it — 

 hoping that by its resistance in the water the whale 

 would be to some extent forced to moderate his 

 soundinors. The old line, unable to endure the strain 

 caused by the drug, parted; and away the whale 

 went to windward eyes out, with a speed that, to 

 the chagrin of all, defied pursuit. So, here was the 

 third whale, this season, lost by the one boat. On 

 reviewing this journal, it will be seen in the pre- 



