"The result of this slaughter of whales was vividly described in the Cumbrian's log of July 27: 'We were turning south along the land floes in hopes of fish. Here and there along the floe edge lay the dead bodies of hundreds of flenched whales, and the air for miles around was tainted with the fætor which rose from such masses of putridity. Towards evening, the numbers come across were even increasing, and the effluvia which then assailed our olfactories became almost intolerable'" (pp. 254-255).
from "The Arctic Whalers" by Basil Lubbock
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