On this day: May 4

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

1. 1828 · Galatea: Traded for fruit from an English brig.
2. 1833 · Parker: Saw Portuguese men-of-war.
3. 1836 · Addison: Finished trading.
4. 1851 · Fortune: Crewmen sick aboard.
5. 1852 · Fortune: Sailed for port due to captain's illness.
6. 1905 · Karluk: Mail arrived from the fort.
7. 1849 · Nimrod: Mr Talbot joined the ship.
8. 1904 · Karluk: Sailed through strips of ice.
9. 1833 · Parker: Saw clams.

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