Image of French and American whalers harpooning a whale off the coast of Mexico; men cling to capsized boats around the harpooned whale; large ships in background.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
![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](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4UCXRH6%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
