Australian whaler Earl Stanhope visited Bay of Islands, New Zealand in 1836

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

Arrived on 14 October, barque, name master Salmon, tonnage 295 tons, belonged to New South Wales, active in the sperm oil fishery, cargo 1,200 barrels oil

Source

Accounts and papers of the House of Commons: seventeen volumes. Colonies; Emigration; Australia; Prisons, West Indies;etc. Session 15 November 1837-16 August 1838. Vol. XL.