Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-01-05

Nv love. why do 20 always say
.Give NJ our daily bread!
Why mot ask for week or moreF
The child bent her head
In thoushtfuI mood toward the door,
we want IL fresh" she mid.
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Whale fishery has attracted at differ
snt periods all the maritime nations Of
Europe. Az early - the twelfth century
there vas whale hshsry Of consider
able Importance In the Bay Of Biscay,
which in the thirteenth and fourteenth
centuries developed into one Of consid-
cradle value. II Vas small species Of
whale which was oaught. and in the If
tenth OF sixteenth centuries the animal
became extinct. or left the grounds, and
TIE industry died ont. During the Dutch
explerstions Of the Northern ssas In the
kMxteuth century extensive whaling
Qrounds were found near 6pjtxberRen.
where thess anoieot mariners were soon
engaged, and continued 20 until the
whales were driven Oh, and wsrs fol-
lowed TO the coast Of Grsealand, whore
the trade increased 10 sueh IN extsnt
that in 1880 theEs wsre so Dutch ships
and about $4,000 men employed. From
this time the business declined, and ct
present there 10 no suoh thing ~
Dutch whaler. England subsequently,
took up whaling. bat never carried IL TO
any great extent. At the start, In
l615, England had 164 whaling
shipa, in 1888 only IL, In 1845
about u. and at the present time
about 70. Tho people Of New England
were the pext TO give the trade their ut
tsuti0n, whales being abundant on their
coasts. The pursuit vas inaugurated
BY boats from shore, but ~ the whales
were driven Oh the hardy natives of
Nantucket, New Bedford, Martha'g
Vineyard and Cape Cod built and Atted
out whale ships 70 follow In pursuit.
In 1850 there we're 1900 tons Of ship
ping engaged, and In 1854 the heet had
inoreassd TO 10000, but from this time
steady decline has taken place, until
at the present time Il may safely b
said that the total tonnage engaged in
the whaling bushes does not exceed
$1,000 tons, New Bof nd being the
principal whaling - From New
England ports y - veoools make the
long and weary DoeusQe around Cape
Horn. fitting out formerly for three or
four year voyages, and long before Cali
f0rnia vaa q paYt Of the American
Union were these vessels freuuentsrs %
this port, which thew entered for wood,
water and other Supplies. Monterey
Hay, 6an Diego and the Sandwich Ist-
ands were also favorite stopping places
with them. and many . pioneer has
reached our shores through the medium
Of these old "blubber-huuters." The
vessels engaged In the trade at present
are nearly g ancient a. the ark, and
their old and antiouated appearances
carries one back over half q century.
Late in 1850 some of our wealthy men
fitted out one or two Whaling yeeeels
and sent them OF. but ov;nq 70 moor
euccoee. whaling WA soon riyen mn. md
the Eastern men etill held The mon
opoly Of the huaineaa. ma banded n
down from father 10 Ton .uaino the aarne
old craft chat their arand fatSerp ueed.
the HoWlands. Bartletts. Nyoo. Allena.
0vifta. pouea. Tnokorn. Knovlee. Winoe.
| Of60rda. Arkara' Pawn ma Bonrrcc
hsine - thoeonchlv .isnti0ed Nh M
| indnetrv mn mn asmea Ara familia,
| @ an Who have I'm the mattor anv
attention. The .n0era ennonntsrad ~
- vhslemen In their eeiIin0 ~ mimi
erous. What Win "a dsncers from tha
~ la. and rom ~ snimaI it.sIS
fheir rsad a nn3 IN 49, -. ana vh@n
dn,irc ~. Rshsiiicr : - s,~.rv 49,
nssred hi ~ Ehsnsnicah vhich co,r.
mande6 ~ ~ famcns ~ irSsmcn.
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