. Fig. I East India Company, who controlled by permit all whaling operations between longitudes 51° and 180° E. New Zealand Sperm whaling thus really dates from the year 1798, when, as a result of the reported presence of Spanish warships off Cape Horn, whalers were instructed to pass into Australasian waters for the duration of the war (McNab, 1914).

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