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Tuesday, 2 February 2021
American whaler James Mary Mitchell on 20 August 1836
Wellcome Collection
Fishermen in boats have been attacking a whale but one boat is upset and a man is falling out.
Coloured engraving by F. Duncan after W.J. Huggins 1834
Lying in the Cloudy Bay, New Zealand, captain Jay, with 400 barrels.
Source
Early History of New Zealand: From Earliest Times to 1840.
Chapter XIX. Whaling in New Zealand, 1890.
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