248 WHALING 



Gale the Sea if Possible worse than it Has been; the Last Four 

 Days; Not the least Chance to save a particle of the Whale L 

 Expect Evry Moment to Loose the Whale: Cable & Hawser in 

 this Dreadful Gale: (No Human Power Can save this Whale 

 The Whale Caved in last Night is Now Lying allmost Flat on 

 the Sea is fast rotting away 



Lat 45, 29 Long 174, 04 W 



Friday 26 

 Blowing A Sever Gale if Possible worse than Yesterday: our 

 Whale rotting in the Sea: No Chance to save any portion of it: 

 the Wind S. W. by W & W. S. W. No Vessel so Unfortunate 

 as this: Except the Addison when she was here: Shall Not 

 Only Loose the Whale But the Cable & Hawser attached to it 

 A. M. Still ruged: Hailed the Poor Old Whale alongside 

 tryed to get off some of what was once Bluber: it was all rotten 

 & Spoiled Such is my Hard Fortune Lost Eighty Barrels 

 of Sperm Oil Had to Cut off the Head and let it go before we 

 could rool the Whale over the Head was the Best part but 

 impossible to save it 



Remarks on Board the Most Unfortunate Vessel in the 

 Whaleing Buisness 



Saturday March 27th, 1869 

 Still A Bad Sea on Cut off some of what was once good 

 Blubber; but Now Spoiled Kept Tearing off so rotton the 

 Oil had all run out of it: Such is: Lorenzo Peirces Unfor- 

 tunate Vessels Fate : A Terable Gale to ruin their Voyages It 

 is no use to try in his Ship to make a Voyage Impossible: 

 The Hand of Providence is against him. A. M. Blowing all- 

 most a Gale from .N. N. W. commenced to Boil a Littile 

 Ends thick some Rain 



Small wonder that affairs went wrong fore and aft on board 

 that luckless vessel. Merely to read the log of the Minnesota 

 from beginning to end is enough to drive a man mad. Consider 



