458 Canadian Record of Science. 
As points ef analogy occur between whaling and sealing 
in the Southern Hemisphere, it will not be out of place to 
add a few words on the whaling industry, the last ship con- 
nected with which withdrew from the waters a year or two 
since. Some statistics have been preserved as to the 
whaling operations north of Banks Peninsula for a few 
years. They are imperfect, as they relate to the trans- 
actions of one firm only, but they give some idea of the 
magnitude and the course of the trade. Hach whale yieids 
five or six tuns of oil. 
Year. Whales caught. Oil in tuns. Year. Whales caught. Oil in tuns. 
NS 2 OMe tetetcte GG) cdesado 120 USB Yfobac e6ee UB oo06 d000 360 
NSS Overseers GO ae eoeaGe 143 IRCMISaGie ooo NW Goh5 boo 725 
IUseNls500d660 Chane ApaeNciniG G2 NSB OR Graney. 134 oe ceraerater 642 
1832 Clos ‘GSasacooo 115 SAO eyevercuererer: NM Gooo'c acc 429 
ISBBocoo ooo Clos boob onG6 284 TSS Destine DP bingo c0o0 285 
teeta: Baars Glonrsouacdae 424 NCA eeeesre ere Bid) OOODOOCC 163 
WEED Soo0 0606 GE) Soon oe°s 502 Iceiog oo a6 Oo SD Oliretexa 151 
US SOR aictel ss (NGA see e 410 
The foregoing was entirely the work of shore stations on 
a few hundred miles of coast. The figures do not take into 
account the catch of ships, even in the same localities. 
Thus, in 1834, one vessel, the Columbia, took 200 tuns in the 
harbour of Otakson (Otago). In 1835 four or five vessels 
fished in this harbour. During 1841, 1842 and 1843 nine- 
teen vessels, principally French, entered the harbour. But 
all this was exceeded by the operations in Cook Strait and 
in parts of the North Island. The Bay of Islands became, 
like Honolulu in ‘Jater times, the rendezvous of a great 
fleet of whaling vessels. The fragmentary statistics which 
have come to hand amply show this; yet the vessels only 
entered the harbours at certain seasons, and many of them 
wholly avoided harbours, as, once there, they had no law to 
prevent the desertion of seamen. 
The French made some sort of protest against the 
destructiveness of shore stations, but there was no recog- 
nized sovereignty save a shadowy dependence on New South 
Wales, and there was no law of any kind prior to 1840. It 
