“Here and there,” the log reads, “along the floe edge lay the dead bodies of hundreds of flenched whales … the air for miles around was tainted with the foetor which arose from such masses of putridity. Towards evening, the numbers come across were ever increasing, and the effluvia which then assailed our olfactories became almost intolerable.”
A description of the severe over-fishing of whales in the Canadian Arctic in the 1800s...
