continued from part 2. "The first two months of sailing were quite uneventful, and the end of the year found the whaler at her first port of call, Cape Verde Islands off the coast of French West Africa, where she stopped to sign on several recruits since Captain Sherman found his present crew insufficient in numbers to perform the countless duties on board. The 'Emigrant' now headed southwest through the tropical waters of the equator and across the South Atlantic Ocean to the broad mouth of the Plata River in Argentina. Here for the first time during the voyage the lookout at the masthead shouted the long-awaited, 'Thar she blows, boys, -- thar she white-waters.' All hands jumped to their posts. Boats were lowered and swiftly rowed over the heaving waves in the direction of the unsuspecting whale. After several hours of maneuvering one of the dories slid up cautiously to the rear of the beast, the men being extremely careful to escape the whale's limited vision. Coming closer and closer to the huge splashing, thrashing mass of black blubber, the excitement grew more tense. The order was shouted to 'give it to him', and the anxious harpooner standing in the bow of the dory hurled his long harpoon like a shot and buried it deep in the side of the surprised whale. The battle was on. The men pulled for their lives as the monstrous animal rose in the water, lashed fiercely several times with his powerful tail and dove out of sight in the seething waves. The harpoon rope was sounding at such a pace that the rope had almost reached its limit before the dory crew could toss out the attached running buoy. In a few minutes the whale reappeared, -- the chase was on. Gradually one of the dories gained on the tiring beast, and the lancer prepared his long sword-like spear, marked his time, then plunged it viciously into the side of the angered whale. Withdrawing his weapon by the attached 'monkey line', he again hurled it at the weakening victim, and again, and again, until at last the black monster went into his 'flurry' and rolled over dead, or 'fin out' as they called it." continued in part 4.