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1861 Nov 30 Sat. To-night, while Capt. B. & I were sitting in the little Aft Cabin conversing, the subject was turned to the Number of Whales captured & quantity of oil procured in which he has had a hand in, during his [[underlined]] Whaling [[/underlined]] career: Capt B. says when he made his 1st voyage Bone was only 15 cts. per lb.! - | Total No of Barrels | No Whales | Of 1332 125 Sperm Whales | Of 17.773 Barrels this Column Sperm 1st Voyage | 2300 | 50 (Rising) | 2 | = 50 2d " [[ditto for: Voyage]] | 3500 | 44 | 22 | = 630 3d " [[ditto for: Voyage]] | 3300 | 26 | 1 | = 100 4th " [[ditto for: Voyage]] | 3500 | 50 | 1 | = 200 5th " [[ditto for: Voyage]] | 1100 | 100 | 100 | = 1100 6 " [[ditto for: Voyage]] | 488 | 4 | 125 | 2,080 7 " [[ditto for: Voyage]] | 240 | 2 | - | - 8 " [[ditto for: Voyage]] | 500 | 17 | - | - 9 " [[ditto for: Voyage]] | 945 | 24 | - | - 10 " [[ditto for: Voyage]] | 448 | 3 | - | - 11 " [[ditto for: Voyage]] | 852 | 7 | - | - 12 (present V.) | 600 | 5 | - | - Total | 17.773 | (No Whales) = 332 "Round the Horn" No 'Barrels' 13,700! Davis Strait No barrels N. 4,073 One unsuccessful voyage of Capt B.'s to Davis Straight 1855 & 6 (bet. 9th 10th Voyages as in table) is not down - that was when he lost 14 men out of 23, by death. (Scurvy) The above Capt. B. gave to me rapidly from memory. Whole No Whales 332 - of these 125 "Sperm", 146 Right Whale & 62 "Greenland Whale" Breakfast - Coffee, sea-bread, "Salt Junk", Salt Pork & fried [[underlined]] Whale [[/underlined]] Dinner - Pemican & Borden's Meat Biscuit. Supper = Coffee, sea bread & fried Whale, the latter of Capt. B's own cooking. We enjoyed its eating to-gether both thinking that we relished the supper quite as well as tho' we had been at the "St. Nicholas" in N.Y.! [[note]] While Capt B & I were eating Whale in the "pantry" a native brought in a partridge & gave him Capt B.) [[/note]] To-morrow Morning Mate Rogers with Koo-jes-se start off with dogs & sledge for Budington Bay (Oo-koo-lear) for the object of getting Took-too skins for clothing for protecting his men this winter. [[end page]] [[start page]] 1861 Nov 30 Sat. To-day Capt B. has had a sledge completed for making rapid quick journies this winter. It is light & shod with bare 3/4 in thick (jaw bone of Whale, the native way of shoeing sledges.) I deal out as wanted shot, caps &c wanted by Capt B. for getting necessary articles (for his Command) of the natives. To-night conversed with Capt. B. relative to what I alluded to in my notes last Sabbath. Capt. B. singnified to me that anything he could do towards making everything as pleasant to me as possible if I would indicate it, [[underlined]] it should be done. [[/underlined]] I then spoke of his men playing games on Sunday - that not for my sake but for [[underlined]] his own & that of his men's & the Innuits, [[/underlined]] I wished he would stop it. [[note]] Vide + [[Sunday]] [[/note]] One Seal was caught down the Bay through the new ice to-day by Kood-loo. Ebierbing & Kood-loo went down early this Morning. + [[Sunday]] December 1st 1861 29.325 AM -5° N.W. c 29.3 M -6° N.W. c. o. 29.3 P.M. 6° N.E. f. c. At IX P.M. Fine & wind N.W. I am happy to make a record of the fact that no games have been played aboard the G.H. (at least in the aft Cabin) to-day. Capt. B. ordered the steward this morning to place the Chequer & Back Gammon boards one side & not have them used until Monday. During the day one of the men took up the Chequer Board & initiated some one to play with him. He was not aware of the order that had been given. The reply of the one invited was that Capt. B. had decided no more games should be played on the Sabbath. All seemed perfectly satisfied with the regulation. The Innuits (men) have all been down the Bay to the new ice, sealing to-day. They went as far as "French Head" - got four seals. The livers of 2 were brought aboard & given to Capt. B. on the return of the Sealers.
