Bookkeeper Teunis van der Os, Zierikzee
1721
Whales 3 Barrels blubber 105
1722
Whales 1.5 Barrels blubber 65
1723
Whales 1/4 Barrels blubber 20
1725
Whales 1 Barrels blubber 60
1725
Whales 2/3 Barrels blubber 16
Totals
Whales 6 5/12 Barrels blubber 266
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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