ABSTRACT
French whalers in the south-west Pacific did not appear until 1830, and only began to operate near New Zealand in the mid-1830s-rather later than their British and American competitors. Deep-sea fishing for sperm whales and other species continued in the southern Pacific, and a number of whalers continued to visit New Zealand for water, wood and provisions, but from the mid-1840s, the international whaling fleets concentrated their efforts in the northern hemisphere and the Arctic region in particular. However, a few French whalers were still working in the New Zealand, Tasmanian and Chatham areas in the 1860s. However, a large part of the novel is based on sound information, some of which deals with whaling in New Zealand. They finally left New Zealand, satisfied with the first part of their expedition, and ran into exciting whaling adventures in the Pacific, north and south.
