WHALING EXTRAORDINARY.
The Swansea correspondent of the “Hobart Town Mercury” [relates that on September 30th a young man residing not far from Cole’s Bay saw an unusual number of large animals floundering in the water, and not knowing to what tribe they belonged, immediately started for Swansea to obtain assistance in their capture. Messrs Q-lover and Quin manned a boat,' and at once left for the scene, and killed in the shallow water and on the beach the incredible number of eighty-six whales, of the kind commonly known as finbacks, or bumpers. The men waded close up to them and stabbed them with long knives behind the fin, the animals being entirely helpless in the shallow water. The bay was dyed with blood, ond their dying struggles caused quite an agitation of the water for some distance. They are now all on the sand at low tide, and in very shallow water when the tide is in. The smallest of them measures from 25£t. to 30ft. Those who have been to view the animals declare that the immense number would not be credited except by eyewitnesses. The fortunate possessors are now exceedingly busy cutting up and boiling down the blabber, and putting the oil into all the spare casks and other vessels they can procure.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2097, 12 November 1880, Page 3
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