The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-10-28

I - 49, - ooV0 W0Ifk-
hsys taken hundreds, for they l.,.
could not get out Of each others
boats made M more impression ., II
than . few horsemen would in chars u
Of infantry. The next day was sreaIas&
July, and the Japan and HiJeraio my u
and cannons firing through the a,r eas
help thinking, whilst shiveripg at n. n
my thick clothes, with fields of aoa,;.. 4@s
lance, Of the warm and pleasant do,.
own country. We afterwards came to 's
of walrus o. scattering cakes of ice
Eve of them in two or three hour. ~
large as q four barrel cask, and from ~ sue
in length, with blubber from thres ,saa}
thick, but the majority will not make w =
apiece. They have tusks from six inch.
four feet in length. Their hair is ,ho.
brown color, and naturally they make
thing like the barking Of a dog, but =
they will often cry out like a wom.,
They will huddle together. thirty or fort,
as the cake of ice will hold, and sleen ."
anything l know, a week, without shihi,,s =
ton. The smell around the ice is like ~. d
merry. The more noise made by firm, |. r
~bomb-lances. blowing horns and shou,ir, ! 4
for it gallies them so that they come IN .. 1,
time around the boats.
From the 10th to the 25th Of Aupuy :,
cooled down, taking six bowheads near ~
bourne, in about lat 70o, on the Amer. Z
This appeared to be the favorite resort Of \.
and where most of the ships took their Ill
short time there were plenty Of large wL.. 2
aging from one hundred and forty to onehuss
fifty barrels each, though last season in II,
place they averaged but sixty or sevens, !
We have taken in all. including one bunds
between seasons, about one thousand and "a,
and eleven thousand pounds of bone, which !
thousand three hundred and fifty barrels Ls I
and eight thousand pounds of bone, make n
sand four hundred barrels oil and nineteen N
pounds of bone. Our Captain has probab, /
$1,000, and the owners $4,000 or S4O,OMy
voyage. The South america, Capt. Wall
one thousand two hundred barrels oil in III
the most Of any ship up here. The Wm. d
Capt. Soule, bark Fortune, Capt. Andersq|
Thompson, Capt. Childs, Mary & SusaJ
Stewart, Japan, Capt. Dimond. and bark q
Captain Pierce, each got from nine hu.
eleven hundred barrels oil. The .addis,
tic, Milo, John e. Elizabeth, James .Har
from FIVE hundred to seven hundred. barrels
.Addison, but two seasons out, has done well
one thousand barrels last season, FIVE hundre
Zealand and seven hundred up here. Cal
renee has his wife with him.. 1t is getting a
tomary for captains to bring their wives Quit
States. The Z. F. Mdson, SpeedUeH, .add,
one or two others, have ladies aboard in thu
and the Wm. Thompson, Japan, Hibernit
toga and bark Emerald left them at tn.
when we left, about the LIST Of S%eptembs
Halleck, in common with many others, has /
his luck of last season. The brig Wailua d,
lulu and Bremen) lost her anchors in Phv3
and used deck pots for q substitute. She bad
four hundred barrels oil. The Benjamin l
Capt. Barber, took q devil6sh and had it mi
Der room eight days. when. not getting al
they hove it overheard, and in company u
Hibernia left the Arctic. They had previous
q dry skin. The master of the .Majesic die
and his first officer took command. Two d
lost in the Arctic, one on the Goethe, taken \
. line fast to a h~umpback. and the other a bod
on the Emerald. Mr.. Clifford, second u.s(
bark Fortune. was taken out Of the boat b!
lance warp and carried twice around by tsI
which was rolling, when he cut himself lmsI
third mate. Mr.. Veeder, was stove by a vhal
lancing him alone in the night time. The d
and rolled over, and the men were in the wax|
or twenty minutes. Our four of6csr- mud ~
each taken three whales, except the bow bu1
has taken two large bowheads.
The South -Amsrica at first Jagged behind !
little or nothing the first o: August, but CAPT
stuck to his principles and would not lower 4
the Sabbath, though whales were blowing 1
him, and some predicted that he would nostl
yet he brought up the LIST of Septembef q
most oil of any ship in the Arctic. This 4
prove much for Sabbath whaling in this cOf
where there is no night, and men are cons!
work.
We left st. Lawrence Island in company 4
Wm. C. Nye and South .america the 6thdf
Der. intending to stop at Cores Island and \
schatka right whaling ground. but it was Z
blowing, and with square yards we soon reg
s~eventy-mile passage at Fox Islands, in lat 4
172e. Here the South america carried 4
main-yard, and we waited a day or SO for be
leaving these islands we have had mostly b
from the east and south, and after nearly a
passage now find ourselves beating about sOaI
or eighty miles north of Oahu. IL has beef
or two nights, aud we poor sailors, in coH|
the rest of the world, have had q glimrI
comet passing over US, which has no do
gazed at by thousands of the learned and :
other countries, and at which the great Rcs
has been directed. ,
In conclusion, allow me to say n few Erz
half of my fellow Gamer l have been one
for seven seasons north in succession and kr
worth, hardships. exposures. small pay, u
times bad fare and treatment. The great =
whale ships is the unreasonable price Of !
New Bedford, and of slop-chest clothing az
ships, the understanding and paying men q
oil and bone than they have got. do not !
all owners, masters and officers incur thee +
for there are honorable exceptions. Havns
paid some $500 or S400 to owners for ship
| can speak from experience.
From what little | have seen Of your pF
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men in every country are held inviolable-
men are one of the most useful class Of men
nation which has n commerce., necd not Of
and day be proved 1t is getting 10 he