And then there is James Bartley. On November 22, 1896, the New - TopicsExpress



          

And then there is James Bartley. On November 22, 1896, the New York Times picked up the story of a sailor on the whaling ship Star of the East who disappeared in the waters off the Falkland Islands after a harpooned sperm whale, apparently in its death agonies, capsized his whaleboat. Assuming Bartley had drowned, the rest of the crew set to work flensing the whale, which had by then finished up its agonies. The workmen were startled . . . to discover something doubled up in [the stomach] that gave spasmodic signs of life. The vast pouch was hoisted to the deck and cut open and inside was found the missing sailor, . . . unconscious but alive--after thirty-six hours inside the whale.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 19:42:00 +0000

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