26 WHALING AND BEAR-HUNTING 



called a Nordcapper ; it is a small edition of the Greenland 

 Right whale and is practically identical with the Australis 

 of the Southern Seas. 



This is the first whale we read of being hunted ; in the 

 Bay of Biscay and along the west of Europe it was supposed 

 to have become extinct, but of recent years we have found 

 them in considerable numbers round the coasts of Shetland 

 and Ireland ; a few years ago there were, I think, eighty of 

 them captured in the season. 



