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Sunday, 31 July 2022

Dutch Greenland commandeur Jurrian de Jong returned home according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamse courant dated 7 August 1770

An item dated Harlingen, Netherlands 26 July reported the arrival in the morning of 25 July of commandeur Jurrian de Jong returning from the Greenland seal hunting who caught 2,800 seals or 101 and some small parts blubber en who stated that the catch results of the whalers were worse, he spoke early July several ships still being empty.

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