162 CLUB TYPES OF NUCLEAR POLYNESIA. 
mons nor the narwhal the waters of Santa Cruz; the study of the dis- 
tribution of mammals negatives that as even the most remote possi- 
bility; there is no natural supply in those regions of the material of 
these two pieces. Yet the credibility of Voy is so stoutly established 
that no doubt can attach to his record that he collected these two 
pieces at these points in the South Pacific and in warm equatorial 
waters, although the two animals can exist only in Arctic and subarctic 
seas. 
The explanation of these two pieces discovered in alien surroundings 
begins far away, at Nantucket and New Bedford. It is written in the 
intimate history of the whale trade, once great but now decayed. 
Setting forth upon a three-year cruise, the whalers shipped only so 
much of a crew as might serve to sail the ship to the cruising-grounds. 
This inhered in the practice of paying by the lay; each sailor had an 
interest in the catch; it was the part of a good ship’s husband to pare 
the crew-list to such good boat-headers and boat-steerers as might be 
needed in the great chase. In the earlier years of the last century the 
Pacific fairly swarmed with a fortune for the cast of the harpoon. In 
the war of 1812 Commodore Porter put the little Hssex around the 
Horn and harried the British whalers. He took and commissioned so 
many prizes that the last had to be put in command of a midshipman 
scarcely entered into his teens, David Glasgow Farragut; he cruised 
with such a fleet that he was forced to annex the Marquesas to the 
United States in order to give himself a naval base. One of the most 
interesting of the oceanographic charts of Commodore Maury pub- 
lished by the Hydrographic Office before the Civil War was a guide to 
the whales of the great ocean—a double spout printed in blue upon each 
latitude and longitude where a whale had been seen to blow. It wasa 
sport of all the year. In the summer the fleet went northabout after 
the right whale in Bering Sea and the Arctic; in the winter of the north- 
ern hemisphere it made a new summer off New Zealand after the 
antarctic whale. In each voyage between the ice of the north and the 
ice of the south the whalers scattered over the equatorial waters and 
followed the fiercely fighting cachalot. Small wonder that the giant 
mammals of the sea were brought so close to extinction that men were 
led to turn to Seneca oil to see if haply it might not do something more 
than serve as a liniment for creaky joints. 
These random details of the whale fishery find their place in account- 
ing for these two erratic pieces. Arriving shorthanded in the Pacific, 
the whalers filled up their forecastles with islanders from Samoa and 
Tonga and Fiji in the south, from Hawaii in the north—men of a race of 
boatmen, hardy and adventurous, eager to seek out new adventure. 
They were recruited to serve as boatmen; theirs was no lay in the catch; 
they felt themselves richly paid by a few bits of iron hoopage from the 
cooper’s stores and by junk in general. The former of these emolu- 
