On this day: September 10

What American whalers wrote in their logbooks on September 10, in every year of the atlas's voyages: the most interesting first, each linked to its day and the original logbook.

1. 1834 · Bengal: Reports of violence against white settlers and missionaries.
2. 1834 · Bengal: Women kept aboard as remedy for scurvy.
3. 1845 · Draco: Cooper struck for disobeying the mate.
4. 1893 · Beluga: Newport delivered mail.
5. 1853 · Fortune: Caught a whale.
6. 1862 · Mary: Caught 5 sperm whales.
7. 1883 · Pedro Varela: Caught a sperm whale.
8. 1893 · Beluga: Caught a bowhead whale.
9. 1833 · Bengal: Keeper condemned the incompetent officers.
10. 1836 · Edward Quesnel: Found chronometer was miles off.
11. 1847 · Dunbarton: Keeper lamented dull times.
12. 1849 · Abigail: Investigated what proved to be killer whales.
13. 1853 · Active: Two crewmen off duty sick.
14. 1862 · Hopeton: Saw jumping fish or dolphins.
15. 1865 · Brewster: Head sea tossed the ship around.
16. 1877 · E. H. Hatfield: Crew caught a turtle.
17. 1832 · Bengal: Saw dolphins.
18. 1846 · Dunbarton: Lowered a boat to go fishing.
19. 1853 · Fortune: Invalids reported no better.

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