On this day: March 4

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on March 4, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1834 · Bengal: Learned the Catherine had burned.
2. 1847 · Draco: Buried Mr. Robinson at sea.
3. 1852 · Pacific: Captain traded ashore for island provisions.
4. 1838 · Edward Quesnel: Caught 2 pilot whales.
5. 1842 · Rowena: Caught a whale.
6. 1848 · Abigail: Caught a whale.
7. 1865 · Brewster: Drunken official threatened to kill keeper.
8. 1845 · Edward: Whale seen among huge school of porpoises.
9. 1906 · Karluk: Freezing cold at 28 below zero.

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