G'day,

Marc: Lyn & Evan Mathieson have been in constant contact (insofar as the Mathiesons can ever be found and contacted) with Rita - in trying to get more of Harry's work out as recordings. I should see them this weekend, at the Nationa Folk festival ... so I will raise the question of appropriate contact.

Ringer: I never heard Harry make anything of the possible ambiguity. He was a whale chasing man: and that was part of his life, back then.

However, I just ordered a copy of The journal of the Whaleship Essex ... very much about a whale actively chasing men ... and ships! (And also the major source for the story of Moby Dick. We need a few more of that one's breed stalking the Japanese scientific research team ... scientifically researching how many whales they can get away with killing (and eating) in the name of conservation!

Regards,

Bob Bolton