Modern Travel
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Excerpt from Modern Travel: A Record of Exploration Travel Adventure Sport in All Parts of the World During the Last Forty Years Derived From Personal Accounts by the Travellers Modern whaling is a new kind of whaling of only about fifty years´ growth. It has grown up as the old styles went more or less out of practice. A few sailing ships still prosecute the old style of sperm whaling south of the line, but the Greenland Right whale hunting has been almost entirely given up within the last few years, because the Right whale, or whalebone whale, Baloena Mysticetus, had become scarce and so wary that it could not be killed in sufficient numbers to pay expenses. This Baloena , or whalebone whale, has no fin on its back. A large Right whale, or Bowhead, as it is sometimes called, has nearly a ton of whalebone in its mouth, which a few years ago was worth about £1500 per ton; previously it was worth as much as £3000 per ton, so one good whale paid a trip. It was pursued from barques - sailing ships with auxiliary steam and screw, fifty men of a crew, and small boats, each manned with five men, with a harpoon gun in its bows, or merely a hand harpoon. When the harpoon was fired and fixed into the whale, it generally dived straight down, and when exhausted from want of air, came up and was despatched with lances or bombs from shoulder guns. These whales measured from forty to fifty-five feet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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