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Show WHALING INDUSTRY OF TODAY Norwegians Have Wrested Supremacy From the British, Who Had Held It for Many Years. The most expert whalers today are the Norwegians. Many years ago British Brit-ish whalers were supreme, but owing to the meanness and shortsightedness of the government, which withdrew the bounties which had been paid for the encouragement of the industry, the number of British whalers fell off, and wo lost millions of pounds in consequence. conse-quence. The most successful whaling ground just now is the South Atlantic, in llm ii,.i-lil1orli..o(l of South Georgia, the South Shetland, and (he South Orkneys. Ork-neys. The u"e of steam whalers has produced ' enormous Increase, for wlim-eas in 1!KM5 only is:! wlia!"s were caughl in (he Antarctic -islands, last year 7.5 1 were caught. Hie total value val-ue of thi' products being 1 ,.".1 Ll.OIKl. No fewer than 'Jf.S.OOd barrels of oil, valued at 1.010.0' )(, were got rrom til' whales; the hone .fetched 1.750 and Iho guano 2.001. In adilillon there were 'J.0I1 sea elephaiils anil 77 sea leopards killed, valued at 20,001). London Tit-lilts. |