FISHERIES OF TIIE PACIFIC CJOXST. ?5 
■whale ships were only occasionally seen, it has become the greatest 
whaling rendezvous of the world. 
Fishermen , lay , etc . — The crews of the Pacific whalers are exceedingly 
heterogeneous in their make-up. Kepresentatives of nearly every State 
and Territory in the Union, of the various European nationalities, of 
Canada and South America, together with natives of the Pacific Islands, 
Asia, and Africa, may be found on board the whaling vessels. Together 
they constitute perhaps the most cosmopolitan assemblage x to be found 
in a single industry anywhere on the globe. 
Nationality and nativity of persons employed in the Pacific and Arctic whale fishery from 
San Francisco in 1888, including the crews on New Bedford vessels making their head- 
quarters on the Pacific coast. 
Country. 
Nationality. 
Nativity. 
United States 
1,019 
727 
British Provinces 
248 
336 
Central America .' 
3 
3 
South America 
33 
34 
Mexico 
5 
5 
Norway 
33 
42 
Sweden 
46 
58 
Denmark 
10 
11 
France 
20 
26 
Germany 
91 
127 
Holland 
7 
7 
Austria. 
2 
3 
Belgium 
2 
2 
Italy 
2 
2 
Switzerland 
1 
1 
Russia 
12 
16 
Spain 
89 
98 
Portugal 
65 
185 
Africa 
1 
1 
China 
2 
2 
Japan 
38 
38 
Sandwich Islands 
19 
21 
South Sea Islands 
17 
20 
Total 
1, 765 
1. 765 
Citizenship of native-born Americans engaged in the Pacific and Arctic whale fishery from 
San Francisco in 1888 , including the crews on New Bedford vessels making their head 
(quarters on the Pacific coast. 
State or Territory. 
No. 
State or Territory. 
No. 
Alabama 
2 
Montana 
1 
Alaska . . 
2 
New York 
129 
Arizona 
2 
New Jersey 
11 
California 
84 
Now Hampshire _ _ 
4 
Connecticut 
20 
North Carolina 
3 
Delaware 
3 
Nova, da, __ 
2 
Districtof Columbia 
1 
Nebraska, 
2 
Georgia 
2 
Ohio - 
23 
Illinois 
28 
Oregon i 
3 
Indiana 
4 
Pennsylvania, 
47 
Iowa 
11 
Rhode Island 
13 
Kansas 
4 
South Carolina 
1 
Kentucky 
6 
Texas . . 
4 
Louisiana 
. 5 
Tennessee _ 
2 
Maine 
20 
Vermont . 
4 
Massachusetts 
223 
Virginia 
7 
Maryland 
11 
Wisconsin 
12 
Michigan 
12 
W ashin gton 
1 
Missouri 
10 
Minnesota 
6 
Total 
727 
Mississippi 
2 
