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Excerpt from Acta Victoriana, Vol. 35: A Monthly Journal; October, 1911, to May, 1912 N the twentieth day of July, of the year 1911, I visited the little harbor of Beaverton, where a rather large whale factory has recently been erected. I had often gone out with the small fishermen catching cod, salmon and halibut, but now I was bound whale fishing. Even before I had boarded the whale steamer I had begun to consider salmon and halibut very small fry. Captain Hanson, of the whaling boat Cabot, let me have free use of a berth in his cabin. I found the captain a most agreeable gentleman, and before we were two days at sea he had become positively friendly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.