An item mentioned that ship brokers V. de Vries and G. de Myn sold at Nieuwezyds Heeren Logement at Amsterdam, Netherlands on Monday 14 September 1767 the extraordinary whaling tools of commandeur Ryk Harmens, 1,100 guilders, stroke 150 guilders, G, de Myn.(1)
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1. Greenland commandeur between 1767-1772 for Nicolaas Anthony van Hoorn, Amsterdam, 1767: o whales-48 barrels blubber-59 quardelen whale oil. Caught one ‘Combaars’ [Humpback whale]. 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.
Source
De Maandelyksche Nederlandsche Mercurius, Volume 22, September, Amsterdam, 1767.
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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