84 THE WHALEMAN'S ADVENTURES. 



Intelligence from the northern whaling 

 ground of latest date shows that the Arctic 

 Ocean has been entered at Behring's Straits by 

 our intrepid American whalemen. Captain 

 Boys, of the bark Superior, from Sag Harbor, 

 was thus reported in the Sandwich Island 

 Honolulu Friend : " I entered the Arctic Ocean 

 about the middle of July, (1848), and cruised 

 from continent to continent, going as high as 

 latitude seventy, and saw whales wherever I 

 went, cutting in my last whale on the 23rd of 

 August, and returning, through Behring's Straits, 

 on the 28th of the same month. On account 

 of powerful currents, thick fogs, the near vicinity 

 of land and ice, combined with the imperfection 

 of charts and want of information respecting 

 this region, I found it both difficult and danger- 

 ous to get oil, although there were plenty of 

 whales. Hereafter, doubtless, many ships will 

 go there, and I think there ought to be some 

 provision made to save the lives of those who 

 go there, should they be cast away." 



During the entire period of his cruise no 

 ice was seen, and the weather was ordinarily 



