CAPTURE OF A LARGE WHALE.
Thames, This day. Yesterday at daybreak a whale was seen disporting Itself iv the Gulf, distant about seven miles from Grahamstown, and after three or four hours' hard work the men employed in the steamers and fishing boats succeeded in forcing the animal up the Thames river into shoal water, where it was soon killed. It measures 75ft in length.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3677, 27 April 1883, Page 3
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