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[[symbol]] The "Puma", [[strikethrough]] belongs [[/strikethrough]] like the "Lynx", belongs to the "Newfoundland Whaling Co" : But I have not her figures since 1903. She was working in or near  "Placentia Bay", this year.

to kill more than so many, per week, as they could not deal with the numbers they were bringing in: whilst now, a Mr Howard McDougall wrote to me from Reuben's Harbour Chalens Bay, on July 19th  1907 :- "they are extremely scarce. We have now 32. The "Hemp" (of another Company) has given up, having got 24 fish. The "Cabot" at Balena has got 27 so far. Writing later he mentioned that another ship belonging to the Cape Broyle factory had been laid up, having only got [[underlined]] one [[/underlined]] ! Against this compare: 
1903 The "Puma" killed 256 [[symbol]]
1904 The "Lynx" (In past cruise] 170
1905 The "Lynx"  137
1906 The "Lynx"   81
The big figures, at the beginning of the century, "boomed" the