Complex sentence: Whalers sometimes visited this part of the coast in the 1830s such as the Jason, probably of New London in the United States, Captain Chester, reported at'Otago Bluff' south of Kakanui, with 2,500 barrels of oil, on 1 December 1839.
Split into simpler sentences: Whalers sometimes visited this part of the coast in the 1830s. The "Jason", for example, probably of New London in the United States, Captain Chester, reported at'Otago Bluff' south of Kakanui, with 2,500 barrels of oil, on 1 December 1839.