246 WHALING 



A. M. Strong Breeze from E. N. E. & always will be trying 

 to Work to the Eastward (But Cannot) Going the Wrong Way: 

 I Suppose: No Whales around Chatham Islands this Season 

 I Sometimes think this Wind is Fixed Here to indicate: that 

 We are going Wrong No Use for me to try to get any-thing or 

 to have any-thing Impossible 



''""'"""^ Lat 44, 11 Long 17-8 28E 



Remarks on Board the Poor & Unfortunate ''Minnesota" 



Wednesday, 21st {Dec. 1870) 

 Light Breeze from N. N. W. 



Heading East. Saw the Fortunate Bark, James Maury Stow- 

 ing Down all the Ships. Have taken Whales: Now But the 

 Unfortunate Minnesota & We cannot See One; Nor do I Expect 

 to Ever Boil again: Chatham ground will Not Produce One for 

 Us: all the other Ships will Get Full before. We can Get One: 

 No Other Ship But has Got Whales: Oh Could We get One 

 Whale; HowGreatful. I. should be: I. Favoured again: I. 

 will devote my Share to Charatable Purposes. . . . A. M 

 Pretty Good Weather Wind from .N. W. to S. W. The 

 Fortunate Ship Live Oak Boiling which is Something, the 

 Minnesota will Never Do Again: The Only Vessel But has 

 taken Oil on this ground . . . And . . . We are 

 Bound to Get Nothing. . . . It is Now more than Seven 

 Months Since we have : Got A Whale to Save it The Last Year 

 Only taken Two Hundred Barrels which is more than we shall 

 Get the Next. I. Fear No Vessel on this ground so Un- 

 fortunate as this My Ruin is Certain. Nothing Can save me 

 Now 



Lat 44, 23 Long 17 4 44 



All the Ships but this Unfortunate Vessel, Have done well: I 

 Never Expect to get another Whale this Voyage The LORD 

 willNot suffer Us to See One: Much more to Get any . . . 



