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Mr. Brown, the mate, and my- “They’re named after the Arethusa. self were standing by the mainmast talk- Captain Worth filled her right up ing. “I hope we raise whales to-morrow here, taking two thousand two hundred ” and get one to our boat, ‘Spunyarn,’ barrels in fifteen months. That was said Mr. Brown to me. “So do I, sir,” twenty years ago and as far as I know was my reply. they haven’t been cruised on for the last “Well,” said the mate, “we’ve had four or five years. good . luck so far. A month on these “These grounds are a big eddy circling grounds, and we’ve taken two hundred around, and moving somewhat to the barrels, not half bad for that length of north or. south according to the season time. The old man claims that the par- of the year. They are between two rot, which he bought at Atacamas ocean currents, known to sperm whale- brought us good luck.” men as the ‘east set’ and the ‘west set.’ 4 Sea Stories Magazine The speed of the circular current is fine, clear night, not a breath of air about two or three knots. In very light stirring, and as still and quiet as only the airs or calms it would be impossible for sea can be during an oil calm in the a disabled vessel to work out of it. tropics. A man named Patsy had the “The nearest land, if you except Salav wheel. Mr. King, his boat steerer, a Gomez Rocks, is Easter Island, which is Nantucketer whom we called “Skeezix,” about one thousand miles distant. The and myself, were yarning by the main old man tells me that hie aims to keep rigging. We had been at this for some about fifty miles from the center of the time when Mr. King remarked that the eddy. 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