. A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora. t below the truck. The crows-nest or barrel was a most comfortable place. Oneentered through a trap door in the bottom, andwhen this was closed there was no the edge of the barrel and sticking outsome distance there was an iron rail upon whichthe glass could rest, the latter being kept in acanvas bag or pocket inside. From there the shipwas navigated, a wire going to the engine roomand ringing the bell, but orders to the man at thewheel were called down. While these changeswere taking place, in company with the surgeonof the Arctic,
. A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora. t below the truck. The crows-nest or barrel was a most comfortable place. Oneentered through a trap door in the bottom, andwhen this was closed there was no the edge of the barrel and sticking outsome distance there was an iron rail upon whichthe glass could rest, the latter being kept in acanvas bag or pocket inside. From there the shipwas navigated, a wire going to the engine roomand ringing the bell, but orders to the man at thewheel were called down. While these changeswere taking place, in company with the surgeonof the Arctic, I wandered all over St. Johns andthe neighborhood, and enjoyed the hospitality ofmany residents. It was some distance aroundthe end of the harbor to the city, but we couldskate across if we liked. The weather was in-tensely cold and the land was covered with deepsnow. The Aurora having been converted into asealer, and having taken on board her suppliesand exchanged her beautiful whale-boats for anumber of very crude looking punts, moved over. IN THE WHALER AURORA 37 to the north side of the harbor, and waited forsailing day to take her crew on board. It may not be out of place to make a few re-marks here about seals and sealing people know that seal fisheries exist, butfew have any idea of their extent. The ice-fieldsof Newfoundland and Labrador produce morethan anywhere else; but Greenland, NorthernEurope, the seas around Jan Mayen, Nova Zem-bla and Spitzbergen produce also a great harvest,and the fur-bearing seals of the Aleutian Islandsmust not be forgotten. Sealing on the east coastof Greenland is entirely in the hands of natives,but the industry in other places is chiefly prose-cuted by Europeans and Americans. LindemanteUs us that in 1720 the ports of the Weser sentout ships, that in 1760 Hamburg sent nineteenwhich took 44,722 seals, that in 1862 five Germanships took 17,000, five Danish 5,000, fifteen Nor-wegian 63,000 and twenty-two British 51,000; sothi
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