No true whales were found, however, and by the time the ships reached the fishing grounds the cod season was nearly past.
Besides the old man in white fur, as the polar bear was respectfully called, Arctic foxes, walrus, whales and seal abounded.
He sailed nearer to the pole than any man had been before him, and found whales bigger, finer and more numerous than anywhere else.
I believe," said Cartier to Maclou as the flagship sailed gaily on over the sunlit sparkling waves, "that this must be the place from which all the whales in the world come.
Whales in the sea can telegraph as well as senators on land, if they will only note the difference between long spoutings and short ones.
On the 27th of October, as the vessels approached the south-west coast of Africa, whales and seals were encountered, and also 'quoquas.
Catalogue of Seals andWhales in the British Museum, by J.
At length we reached the neighbourhood of the Kingsmill group, off which we found so many whales that we remained for several months, during which time we captured a large number.
By night on that occasion our boats had brought two whales alongside, but the crews were so weary from having been away all day under a scorching sun that they were unable to commence cutting in till next morning.
Anxious to be on board, I steered in the direction where I expected to find her, with, as I hoped, one or two whales alongside.
At length whales becoming scarce, the two captains agreed to proceed westward across the Pacific to the Japan whaling ground.
A large number of whales were seen in the haven, which gave occasion to a remark by Linschoten that whale-fishing ought to be profitable there.
Now they are caught with nets of extraordinary size and strength, which are laid out from the shore at places which the white whales are wont to frequent.
At first I did not bestow much attention upon them, thinking they were the bones of whales that had been killed during the recent whale-fishing period.
In the sea, a walrus, several rough seals (Phoca hispida), and two shoals of white whales were seen.
A large number of whales were seen raising half their bodies out of the sea and spouting jets of water from their nostrils in the common way, which was considered a further sign that they had an extensive ocean before them.
These whalesare much less than other whales, not being longer than seven ells.
Seals and white whales also perhaps occur here at certain seasons of the year in no small numbers.
He had asserted that inwhales that were killed on the coast of that country he had found Dutch harpoons.
Thus on this occasion only two small whales were seen during our passage from Tromsoe, and I do not remember having seen more than one in the sea round Novaya Zemlya in the course of my two previous voyages to the Yenisej.
Cetacea might with some propriety be divided into whales with whalebone, and whales with teeth.
The Olfactory Nerves were quite as large as in other mammals; and in this respect the Balæna Whales are quite unlike the Dolphins[E].
The larynx presented that organization so well described by the illustrious Cuvier, and which I believe to be peculiar to the whales with teeth.
To this class of whales I have been in the habit of giving the name of Rorqual, to distinguish them from the other class of Whalebone Whales, the Mysticetus both borealis and australis.
In February 1834 a young whale of the family of Balæna Whales was caught near the Queensferry, in the Firth of Forth.
The brain in whalebone-whales does not fill the interior of the cranium; so that the capacity of the one is no measure of the solid bulk of the other.
The baleen whales have no teeth, and no use for them.
Again, whales seem to be hairless, yet rudimentary hairs are found in the skin.
Again, manywhales have rudimentary pelvic bones, but no hind-limbs.
If whales were made at once out of hand as we now see them, is it conceivable that these useless teeth would have been given them?
It was begun by the colonists, on their own shores, at a very early period; but the whaleshaving abandoned the coasts of North America, these hardy navigators pursued them into the northern and southern oceans.
In the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries, they carried on this business to a considerable extent; but the whales taken by them were not so large as those which have since been captured in the polar seas.
At length, the whales ceased to visit the Bay of Biscay, and the fishery in that quarter was of course terminated.
The whalers commence operations in the northern latitudes, in the month of May; but the whales are most plentiful in June, when they are met with between the latitudes 75 deg.
The whales were evidently rather doubtful as to the intentions of these boats, though we were not.
The whales came swimming leisurely to windward with the boats in hot pursuit.
Something happened to drive the whales up here so thick that the hull river was alive with 'em, and of course we was for reapin' the harvest.
In appearance these whalesare the most attractive of all the cetaceans.
Everyone is saying that Hudson Bay is played out for seal and walrus, while whales are getting scarcer every year," said Mr. Selincourt, who had bought out the old company cheaply because of this growing scarcity.
We pitched our tents near the place where they rested at night, and were much amused at their dexterity in spearing a number of whaleson the following day.
Teeth are always present at some period of the life history, but in the whalebone whales they are only present during foetal life, their place in the adult animal being taken by horny plates of baleen.
In the Toothed whales the anterior ribs have capitula articulating with the centra, as well as tubercula articulating with the transverse processes; in the posterior ones, however, only the tubercula remain.
The following are the names and principal characteristics of the various species of whales known to these people: The St. Lawrence whale, just described.
The killer or thrasher, about thirty feet; they often kill the other whales with which they are at perpetual war.
They are very mischievious, but the second enemy is much more terrible and irresistible; it is the killer, sometimes called the thrasher, a species of whales about thirty feet long.
Whales are beautiful beasts,' he said affectionately.
The whales are hauled up inclined planes like logs to a sawmill, and as much of them as will not make oil for the Scotch leather-dresser, or cannot be dried for the Japanese market, is converted into potent manure.
At the end of her day's kill she would return, towing sometimes as many as four inflated whales to the whalery, which is a factory full of modern appliances.
If you go on like this you won't have any whales left,' I said.
He went on to tell me how a swift ship goes hunting whales with a bomb-gun and explodes shells into their insides so that they perish at once.
Whales don't make a noise, Toddie; they only splash about in the water.
The oil is used for lamps in the mission churches; but among the Indians themselves it is also employed in the cuisine,--as it has not that fetid smell peculiar to the oil of whales and salt-water cetaceae.
The bay is full of whales and seals, and is in lat.
Latest start as iver I made was ninth o' March, an' we struck thirteen whales that year.
She's off St Abb's Head, with something like fifteen whales to her share.
As for our whalers, it need scarcely be related that the multitude of whales diminished as the slaughtering went on, until it was no longer possible to keep the coppers full.
Coppers and boilers were fitted on the island, and little colonies about them, in the fishing season, had nothing to do but tow the whales in, with a boat, as fast as they were wanted by the copper.
Thirdly, we saw to the west of those isles three or four whales in a scull, which they judged to come from a westerly sea, because to the eastward we saw not any whale.
The 6th we saw a very great whale, and every day after we saw whales continually.
It is an important fact that rudimentary organs, such as teeth in the upper jaws of whales and ruminants, can often be detected in the embryo, but afterwards wholly disappear.
Because," answered Simpson, "it is in that green water that most of the whales are caught.
The number of whales on this coast must at one time have been very great.
No doubt for the same reason that the lobos and the boobies have gone, no one knows where, so the whales have gone in search of grounds and waters remote from the haunts of man and steamers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whales" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
