Note 19 — Chapter VII · HISTORY OF THE SPANISH SETTLEMENTS ON THE COAST OF PATAGONIA.
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In a subsequent report of Viedma's, he says that, when the first accounts of San Joseph's were brought to Monte Video, a merchant of that place, Don Francisco de Medina, fitted out a vessel to go a whaling there, the crew of which, in the first month, harpooned no less than fifty fish within the port.