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Sunday, 25 April 2021

American whaler Young visited Payta, Peru according to the newspaper The Inquirer and Mirror dated Wednesday 1 January 1834

An item referred to a letter from Charles Higginson dated Payta [Peru] 15 September 1833 reported the visit at Payta on 30 August of the American whaler Young Eagle master Coleman of Nantucket 13,5 months out 1.100 barrels oil.

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1. Master Benjamin A. Coleman, departed to the Pacific Ocean on 11 July 1832, returned 18 October 1835 2,625 barrels sperm oil. Catalogue of Nantucket Whalers and their voyages from 1815 to 1870. Hussey&Robinson, Nantucket, 1876.

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