Wild Life In Southern Seas By Louis Becke PDF Download

Excerpt from Wild Life in Southern Seas We had climbed the headland to look for whales for it was the month Of October, when the great schools Of humpbacks and finbacks were travelling southward to colder seas from their breeding grounds among the Bampton Shoals, nine hundred miles away, north-east. For three weeks they had been passing south, sometimes far out from the land, sometimes within a mile Of the Shore - hundreds Of thousands Of pounds' worth of rich blubber, with never a whaleship nor whaleboat's crew within two thousand miles; for the brave Old days of Australian whaling enterprise died full thirty years ago. 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.