American whaler Vermont 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 Topham, with 400 barrels.

Source

Early History of New Zealand: From Earliest Times to 1840. Chapter XIX. Whaling in New Zealand, 1890.