Pêche au cachalot sur les côtes du Méxique | Collections | The Huntington

Pêche au cachalot sur les côtes du Méxique | Collections | The Huntington

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Pêche du Cachalot. Chachalot Fishery
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Image of a whale breaching the surface of the water, smashing a whaling boat on its back, and throwing men into the sea during a whale hunt; other ships in the background.
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South Sea Whale Fishery. A representation of the ships Amelia Wilson & Castor off the Isle of Bouro, with their boats & crew in the various process of fishing, showing the manner the spermacetti [sic] whales are caught, also the mode of cutting them into the ship, & boiling the oil upon deck
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Image of whaling ships Amelia Wilson & Castor off the Isle of Bouro (Buru, Indonesia) with sailors in several smaller boats engaged in a sperm whale hunt.
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Pêche de la Baleine. Whale-Fishery
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Image of a whale being harpooned by hunters in a whaling boat; another whale being butchered and blubber being pulled onboard a ship in background.
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South Sea Whale Fishery. A representation of boats attacking a sperm whale from descriptions given by experienced masters and officers in the South Sea Fishery
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Image of a sperm whale rolling on its back with three small boats surrounding it; two boats contain sailors attacking with harpoons, while the third boat is being overturned by the whale; whaling ship in background at right; small depiction of a sperm whale (with a scale showing 10 feet) below main image.
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Sperm whaling with its varieties
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Image of a large panoramic view of a whaling scene depicting a wide range of whaling activities on various boats and ships, including whales being harpooned at left and at right; captions printed under the image provide labels for the various stages of the whale hunt.
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Abandonment of the whalers in the Arctic Ocean Sept. 1871. Pl. 4
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Image of American men in boats sailing towards shore after their whaling ships were stranded in ice in the Arctic; many boats are already pulled up on land with tents and bonfires in background; captions in the lower margin identify the locations pictured (left to right): "Blossom Shoals. Place of Rendezvous. Icy Cape."
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