Harpooned whale trying to escape
Adolf van der Laan after Sieuwert van der Meulen 1720-1730
An item dated Amsterdam, Netherlands 16 August reported the arrival at Texel of commandeur Adam de Jong 3 whales returning from Greenland.(1)
Note
1. Commandeur between 1716-1734, in 1720 for Jacob
Beyerman, Rotterdam, Netherlands 3 whales 160 barrels blubber. 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 note until
1794.
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