He died 18 years later and his tombstone in Gloucester says "James Bartley – a modern day Jonah." In some accounts, however, he was supposed to have returned to work within three weeks. It was said that Bartley was inside the whale for 36 hours, that his skin had been bleached by the gastric juices, and that he was blind the rest of his life. He survived the ordeal and was carved out of the stomach by his peers when they, not knowing he was inside, caught and began skinning the whale, because the hot weather otherwise would have rotted the whale meat. The story, as reported, is that during a whaling expedition off the Falkland Islands, Bartley's boat was attacked by the whale and he landed inside the whale's mouth. "Rescue of a Modern Jonah" in page 8 of the August 22, 1891, issue of the Yarmouth Mercury newspaper of Great Yarmouth in England. The news spread beyond the ocean in articles as "Man in a Whale's Stomach. Louis Globe Democrat of Saint Louis, Missouri, then the note appeared in other newspapers with the title "A Modern Jonah" or something similar in multiple newspapers. The anonymous article appeared in the St. The story originated of an anonymous form, began to appear in American newspapers. He was found still living days later in the stomach of the whale, which was dead from harpooning. James Bartley (1870–1909) is the central figure in a late nineteenth-century story according to which he was swallowed whole by a sperm whale. Not to be confused with Jim Bartley (footballer) or Jim Bartley (actor).
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