To another class of whalers, however, that title may not unfairly be given.

These were the men who settled at various points on the coast, chiefly from Cook's Straits southward to Foveaux Straits, and engaged in what is known as shore-whaling.

In schooners, or in their fast-sailing, seaworthy whale boats, they put out from land in chase of the whales which for so many years frequented the New Zealand shores in shoals.
Remarkable were some of the catches they made.

At Jacob's River eleven whales were once taken in seventeen days.

For a generation this shore-whaling was a regular and very profitable industry.