whales is immense. There were ships 

 during the season of 1848, obtained twei 

 to even thirty- three hundred barrels of < 

 few months. I have heard of one ship tl 

 twenty- six whales by sinking after the 

 killed ; of another that killed nine bef< 

 saved one; of another that killed six 

 day, and all of them sunk; of anotb 

 had three boats stove, and all the men ] 

 into the sea, without any one being lost, 

 forced trial of hydropathy is, indeed, so c< 

 an occurrence, that whalemen make r 

 of it. 



Those huge north-west whales art 

 vicious, and less easily approached aftt 

 are struck, than the whales of other lai 

 It is considered no disgrace to be run aw* 

 by one of those jet-black fellows, found ii 

 five or fifty degrees north ; and many 

 whaler, who had made his boast that ne 

 did a whale run off with him, has been con 

 to give in as beaten when fast to one o 

 " Northwest Tartars." 



One captain says he has seen instai 



