"We are exactly in that part of the Pacific which English and American whalemen call the whale field, and it is here, between New Zealand and South America, that the whales of the Southern Hemisphere are met with in the greatest numbers."
Estamos precisamente en esa parte del Pacífico que los pescadores ingleses y norteamericanos llaman campo de ballenas, y aquí, entre Nueva Zelanda y América del Sur, se hallan la mayor cantidad de las ballenas del hemisferio austral.