The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-09-24
The w hale Fishery.

WHALE GRoUSDs.-The following embrace all
| n nearly all the prominent localities which are
amiIiar 10 whalenen whale grounds
The Charleston Ground-Brazl Banks-Tris-
an de Acuna Islands-IL liam Ocean-Sooloo Sea
. New Holland-New Zealand-Kings Mill
Group-Japan and Japan Sea-Peru Coast
Chill Off Shore California-Kodiack-
0ehotsk Sea, and Arctic Ocean
| WHALE SEASONS AND The PLACES WHERE DIFFER
VI SPECIES OF WHALE ARE EFoUND.-Sperm whales
re taken in the North and South Atlantic Oceans
| Try month OF the year
feoerIn whales are taken the Coast of Chill,
Nom November TO April and the Coast of
Peru IN every month of the year. In the vicinity
. Of the Gallipagos and Kings Mill Group, sperm
whales are found
On the Coast of Japan, they may be taken from
April 70 October. They are also taken off New
| LaIand and Navigator Islands, from September
May.
| From November 20 March, there is good sperm
vhaIing south of Java and Lombock. In June
md July, sperm whales may be found off the n.
" Cape OF New Holland. March, April and
Nav are considered good months for sperm whal-
ins off the Bashec Islands, but ships are obliged
| 70 leave this ground after that time; in conse-
. quaHce of typhoons-
From March 10 July, there is good ground for
sperm whaling in the Sooloo Sea, To the west of
tie Serengani Islands. In the same months,
sperm whales are found off Cape Rivers and
Caak, close In TO land
In the MolIuea Passage, there is good sperm
Whaling the year round, the best months, how
ever, are january, February and March.
The English whalemen have taken, in years
past, large number of sperm whales In the Red
The area over which sperm whales roam, may
include the immense space of the ocean or oceans
ineiadei between the parallels of 30o and SOY of
hitu'ie on both sides Of the Equator
Tho -T.arrv1 hal warm water fish ~ and
aas1rding 70 the lnion of Maury, though it
4" bas never beez( kown to double the Cape of
GOod Hope he Iubles Cape Horn"
RgIt whale ason off Tristan de Acuna, is
from NOyem5 to March and from January to
March off C5 Esttesand Desolation Islands Sperm
whales are &ldOm seen near these Islands
Right ana sperm whaling off the south coast of
Nsx Holland, from October to March,
In-AugAst, there is good ground for humpback
whaling around the Rosemary Islands Right
whales are taken in the japan Sea, from February
October but Bowhead whales have never been
sza there
Right whales are taken on the Kodiack ground,
krn Ma to September; and from March. or as
aTl7 a. the Sea is free from ice, until November,
N tie 0ehotsk Sea.
Right whales are found in the southern part of
the IA, and 6orheods are found in the north and
rs1erH part of it a. the same time
BOEhead whales are found and captured in the
L Usually in June, until October
The right whale Is a cold water fish, 1t has
1esn found BY the examination of 's records kept
by tFsrent ships for hundreds of thousands of
ea!s that the tropical regions of the ocean are to
ue ryk whale as a sea of fire, through which ne
'annot pass, and into which he never enters.
lt has also been supposed, that since the right
whale does not cross the torrid zone, which to him
Es belt of liquid fire through which he cannot
Fa%, that therefore, 80 the right whale of the
hortnern hemisphere is different animal from
taas Of the southern
kis, however, a well established fact, " that
'ae sane kind of whale which is found Oh the
-saors Of Greenland in Bafin's Bay, etc., is also
h1nt in the North Pacific, and about Bhering's
S'falts; the inference therefore, is, that there
nlst be opening for the passage of whales from
one part Of the Arctic Ocean to the other"
The following facts are taken from Maury'sre-
cent work on ssThe Physical Geography of the
"a, and cannot fail of being interesting to
"aalemen, and indeed to all classes of readers:
tis the custom among whalers to have their
Arpoons marked with date and name of the ship;
snd Dr. Seoresby in his work Sc Arctic voy-
sss mentions several instances Of whales that
nave been taken near Bhering's Strait side with
APRONS IN them bearing the stampsof ships that
we're known to craise on the Baf6n's Bay side of
e American Continent; and as, in one or two
instances very short tirae had elapsed between
1,e Date of capture in the Pacific and the date
"Asn the fish must have been struck on the At
~u'ie side, 1t was argut,i therefore, that there
@ "@' sortaTesf passage by which the whales
r-Ssd from one side to the other, since the
;s'eSen animal could not have had the harpoon
- a:.l nln long enough to admit of passage around
',eeT Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope.
H.. mus the fact was approximately established
Ci' The harpooned whales did not pass around
w up horn or the cape of Good Hope, for they
oi the class that could not the equator.
=. .lls way we are furnished with circumstantial
m. oel aloriing the most irrefragable evidence
m11a sns.e Is, at times at least, open water COM
of fca'lon through the Arctic Sea from one side
sS continent to the other, for it is known that
go .1ales cannot travel under .he ice for such
onent to tie other. =
49, but this did not prove the existence of an open
Il. sueke M Qniy established xl,< o~;sko.,o1 &l,o