Bookkeeper Pieter Maarsz Houttuyn, Hoorn
1721
Whales 0 Barrels blubber 0 lost
1722
Whales 5 Barrels blubber 255
1723
Whales 0 Barrels blubber 0
1724
Whales 0 Barrels blubber 0
1725
Whales 1 Barrels blubber 30
1726
Whales 0 Barrels blubber 0
1727
Whales 4 Barrels blubber 110
1728
Whales Barrels blubber 0
1729
Whales 0.5 Barrels blubber 40
Totals
Whales 10 1/2 Barrels blubber 435
Source
Alphabetische naam-lyst van alle de Groenlandsche en Straat-Davidsche Commandeurs die sedert het jaar 1700 op Groenland en sedert het jaar 1719 op de Straat Davis etc. Gerret van Sant. Published by Johannes Enschede, Amsterdam 1770, with hand written notes until 1794.
People in the 17th and 18th centuries held a different geographical view than people today. This means that when we speak of “Greenland whaling”, “the term “Greenland” actually refers to Svalbard, whereas “Davis Strait” refers to whaling off the coast of present-day Greenland. The Davis Strait is a southern arm of the Arctic Ocean that lies north of the Labrador Sea. It lies between mid-western Greenland and Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada.
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