VARIOUS RESORTS OF THE WHALE. 79 



air-guns, that shall fire harpoons or poisoned 

 arrows into him, from a distance. 



The places where the right whale is now 

 most sought by the adventurous American 

 whalemen are, in the Atlantic Ocean, on what are 

 called Main and False Banks, between Africa 

 ; iml Brazil, the parts around the Falkland Islands 

 and Patagonia, and the region of ocean in mid- 

 Atlantic, in the vicinity of the Island of Tristan 

 d'Acunha ; in the Southern Ocean, south of the 

 Cape of Good Hope, near the uninhabited 

 Crozettes Islands, St. Paul's, and other parts of 

 the Indian Ocean ; in the Pacific Ocean, about 

 the New Zealand, New Holland, Chili, and the 

 North-west, cruising ground ; from the coast of 

 America clear over to Kamtschatka. 



This last is now the great harvest- field of 

 American whalers from May to October ; and it 

 will bo likely to last longer than any other, be- 

 oause of b'ing prohibited by the Russians from 



whaling, \vhich destroys the cows about tin- 

 nine of calving. Almost all ships fill up there. 

 Son if have even thrown overboard useful stores 

 to make way for oil. The havoc they make of 



