Front cover image for Whaling Encounters

Whaling Encounters

This illustration from Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary?depicts several scenes of whales beached along the shoreline. It was common for whalers to beach whales before flensing them for their oil and blubber, as transporting them otherwise would often prove difficult

eBook, No Linguistic Content, [1890?]
[publisher not identified], [Place of publication not identified], [1890?]