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Tuesday 2 April 2019

German seal hunters and whalers returning from Greenland according to the Dutch newspaper ‘s-Gravenhaegse courant dated 23 August 1734

An item dated Hamburg, Germany 17th reported the arrival on the Elbe of two seal hunter with a worse catch and  five whalers returning from Greenland included Jurgen Swen with 2 whales, 130 quardelen, Jan Haman 1 whale, 56 quardelen, Harmen Kock2 whales, 6 quardelen and Pieter Jurgensz 1 whale.