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26th October when near the latter islands the 

 course was set direct for Cape Horn, which was 

 sighted on the i8th November, 1832; Beachy Head 

 being sighted on the 3rd February, 1833. Beale 

 had been away two years and four months, the 

 Sarah and Elizabeth thirty-two months only, a very 

 successful and, for those days, brief yoyage. 



The narratives of Colnett and Beale give a 

 personal touch to the history of the southern whale 

 fishery, and their accounts are supplemented by 

 Bennett, who sailed from London on the I7th 

 October, 1833, on the south-seaman Tuscan. The 

 Tuscan was a whaler of the usual type, being about 

 three hundred tons burthen. Contrary to the 

 experience of the Rattler and the Kent, the Tuscan 

 met with Sperm Whales in the Atlantic in the latter 

 half of November, in latitude 9 N. and 23 

 W., one of which was killed and secured. 



A second encounter with Sperm Whales also 

 occurred in the Atlantic in 38 S. and 51 W. 

 (off the South American coast) on the 24th 

 December, when another was captured. Bennett 

 rounded Cape Horn on the i9th January, 1834. 

 Early in February, when near Juan Fernandez, the 

 first Sperm Whales in the Pacific were seen. 



The course of the Tuscan was now to Pitcairn 

 Island, Tahiti, Society Islands, Raiatea, thence to 

 the Sandwich Islands from April to 22nd May, 1834. 



Subsequently the Tuscan met with schools of 

 Sperm Whales to the north-east of the Sandwich 

 Isles in 40 N., two specimens being secured, 



