Chapter 4
By this
point in the journey the men have rounded Cape Horn, the tip of South America, and
are moving up to the coast of South America. They were rather productive off
the coast of Peru. They had caught and butchered eleven whales in a month and a
half thus averaging about one whale every five days. Once moving from the coast
of Peru they sailed to the Galapagos Islands to harvest Galapagos tortoises for
their cherished meat. I found this very interesting because I had always thought
of tortoises as a species that wasn't abundant or hunted for meat. The way they
were descried though, they were everywhere on the islands. (pg. 78) The first
mate Chase recorded that they harvested at least 180 over Galapagos natives. By
the end of the chapter the ship filled with the live tortoises along with the crew
headed in into the open ocean.
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