On this day: December 29

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on December 29, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1836 · Addison: Hurricane smashed boats and flooded ship.
2. 1843 · Jefferson: Caught 11 pilot whales.
3. 1851 · Elizabeth: Caught a sperm whale.
4. 1832 · Bengal: Keeper joked they saw everything except whales.
5. 1833 · Bengal: Keeper complained of toothache and foul port.
6. 1833 · Bengal: Keeper sick with a toothache.
7. 1851 · Fortune: Peter reported some better.
8. 1846 · Dunbarton: Saw jumpers (probably leaping dolphins).
9. 1863 · Solon: Saw grampuses.

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