Description

Monochrome image with four divisions around the horizontal, allowing for four subfigures. Top, ships making anchor on land and men climbing out of whaleboats onto the ground. Below, two tubs for boiling blubber into whale oil. Below, a furnace with a brick base also for boiling blubber; these could be made both on land and on the deck of a ship. Beside it are three barrels of different sizes. Bottom, the mouth of a whale showing the baleen, and a piece of baleen on its own. Plate VIII, section X.