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Show WHALES IN DEiiniNQ SEA. Kourly All lti ViilnaMe lint Monatrrs Ilato Lett the NonU I'uclllc. The rnlnable whk'H have about all disappeared from the North Paolrlc. ltehring und OlihoWr ncirf no longer contain them, and the Arctic ocean in the only recognised whaling ground loft. There are but fifty whitlera now alloat In the western ocean, while a half ccnlrry agu Uioro wore six hundred hun-dred Mich shlpe. '1'hero nro tell (.team vf asi'ls la this fleet and tho rest nro do-sorllicd do-sorllicd by Harper's Weekly ns relics naolunt barka and brigs that dato from the loug tmo, are icldom insured nnd 'with difficulty seauro crows. Tho CnpUIn and crow go 011 fcharos or nre paid a percentage ot tho season's catch, nnd x or eight whales will credit the former with four or flvo thominnd dollars and the tailors with a oouplo of hundred dollars each. For thrte scuona ono of tho window lias uotsedurod a single whnlo, white one crew captured twenty-ouo whaloa in tho HUinmer ot 1801. In ISO! Kttka was surprised by the visit of a whaler, the first In tho many years since tho Falrwcather grounds of Mount St. ISlins were abandoned. This bhlp had sailed lit Morc.li for that old (round, but off l'rluoe William sound nine right whales wore taken in eirht days, and n tenth had been wounded, whon the baric grounded in a fog, unshipped nnd broke the Hid-tier. Hid-tier. It then worked Its way to Sltkn, and for a fortnight gnvo n new Interest Inter-est to the Ilfo of that quiet on pi tab There had been tlmo to eloan and eligritly deodorize tho ship during its sail into port, nnd it foil disappointingly short of thu traditional whaler. Hut Jl wait Interesting to visit It,-and have tho ohusrful mato show pieces uf whalslmne fix and seven feet hi luugtli suteked up llko cord wood; to no the IxtatH, harpoons, knives nud tackle nnd tlin hg vuts In Uin betel, furnace iti .tWrV, where tho mountains ot blqldHT are triad out. Hut tho blubber nnd oil jure llttlo rognrded in this day, as' 1 whalebone- at six dollars a pound Is tha most vnluablo (part of the monster. Catchlng their whales so fast, this crow had mlt tlmo to-cut up ono -whnlo boforo auothor was sighted, and tho hold was filled with tho blubber ot tho first whala while they wero busy harpooning har-pooning and cutting tho bono from tlio later catches. Thoy had only four hundred and thirty barrels ot oil, and tho tonguo of ono wbalo yielded thirteen thir-teen of thoso barrels. Fromnlno whales therqjeame tCfl tliousand pounds of TinnfUiii'nnniiirsTMiiirjiiir' i:"r fii hlsa nt U o uf of a f,iw days. 1 . 1 in |