On this day: August 8

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on August 8, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1841 · Rowena: Sent boats ashore to trade for hogs.
2. 1842 · Rowena: Captain traded ashore for island provisions.
3. 1837 · Edward Quesnel: Caught a humpback whale.
4. 1852 · Fortune: Ice sighted while whaling.
5. 1861 · Altamaha: Killer whales gathered around carcasses.
6. 1846 · Dunbarton: Saw slicks caused by fish.
7. 1852 · Fortune: Had to cut on account of ice.

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