Whalers hunting whales with harpoons from a rowboat, among icebergs with polar bears, 19th century. The Whale Fishery. Harpooning the whale in the Arctic Seas. Woodblock engraving from The Penny Magazine, of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, printed by William Clowes, Lambeth, 1833.

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