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Wednesday, 16 October 2019

German whalers and seal hunters returning from Greenland according to the Dutch newspaper Leydse courant dated 9 August 1820

An item dated Hamburg, Germany 3rd reported the arrival of 3 seal hunters and whalers returning from Greenland, one with 2 whales and 25 quardelen, the other two just each 2 quardelen seal blubber. The other ships which departed the Elbe and still expected to return seemed to have also worse results.