. Fig. 5. Open boat whaling in Fayal. Look-outs and their arcs of search. The numbers refer to Table 5. The manning of a look-out varies according to its importance: the watch may consist of one, two or three men, and the look-outs are manned all the year around from dawn to four or five o'clock in the afternoon. If a blow were raised at some later hour the whalemen could not in general expect to kill before nightfall. With good visibility and little wind, the likeliest time for raising a whale is that period of low level light between dawn and sunrise: the whaling returns show that a good num
. Fig. 5. Open boat whaling in Fayal. Look-outs and their arcs of search. The numbers refer to Table 5. The manning of a look-out varies according to its importance: the watch may consist of one, two or three men, and the look-outs are manned all the year around from dawn to four or five o'clock in the afternoon. If a blow were raised at some later hour the whalemen could not in general expect to kill before nightfall. With good visibility and little wind, the likeliest time for raising a whale is that period of low level light between dawn and sunrise: the whaling returns show that a good number of whales are sighted around six in the morning. Powerful binoculars are employed, some of them with magnifications up to thirty diameters. According to Senhor Tomas Alberto de Azevedo it is possible
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