APPENDIX 



OLD AND NEW WHALING 



THE Greenland whaling was practically given up in 1912, 

 and the Southern whaling for sperm and cachalot and the 

 Southern Right whale, which in the first half of the nine- 

 teenth century employed five hundred to six hundred 

 vessels, practically stopped forty years ago. 



WHY THE OLD STYLES OF WHALING STOPPED 



The growing scarcity and wariness of the Greenland Right 

 whale and the fall in the price of oil and whalebone gave the 

 Balaena Mysticetus or Greenland Right whale an indefinitely 

 prolonged close season, and in the Southern Seas the sperm 

 and the Southern Right whale (Australis) fishing almost 

 entirely ceased, owing to increased working expenses, smaller 

 catches, and the fall in the price of oil. 



" MODERN WHALING " IN NORTH ATLANTIC 



In 1886 Captain Svend Foyn of Tonsberg, Norway, in- 

 vented the plan of capturing the powerful rorquals, commonly 

 called Finners, that are very numerous, but were too strong 

 and too heavy to be killed in the old style from row-boats, and 

 which till his time had not been hunted. By his process a 

 small cannon on the bow of a small steamer could fire a heavy 

 harpoon, one and a half to two hundredweights, attached to a 

 four-and-a-half hawser. This steamer and line were suffici- 

 ently buoyant and strong to play the whale and to haul its 

 body up from the depths when it sank dead. The Greenland 

 whale and sperm both floated when they died. Fortunes were 

 made from the finner whale hunting off the Norwegian coast. 



COMMERCIAL ASPECT AND METHOD OF MODERN WHALING 



Some of these companies work with shore factories, others 

 with both shore factories and large floating factories on board 



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