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afforded 444,607 casks of blubber, being on an a- 

 verage of the whole number of ships fitted out, 

 4.36 fish or 194.2 barrels of blubber j9C?' ship each 

 voyage. During the same period, the average suc- 

 cess of the Dutch Greenland fishery was 4.96 fish 

 joer ship each voyage. The proportion of ships 

 lost by the Hamburghers was 3.7 in 100, and by 

 the Dutch only 1.8 in 100, during the same time*. 



Thus far the success of the Hamburghers in the 

 whale-fishery, was very uniform with that of the 

 Dutch ; but the proportion of ships lost in the ice 

 by the Hamburghers, was double that of the Dutch. 



In each of the years 1673,-73,-78,-80,-97, and 

 1701, the whale-fishery of the Hamburghers produ- 

 ced from nine to eleven whales per ship ; but in the 

 years 1688,-89,-91,-1706,-10,-18, andl9, the aver- 

 age was only I'oths of a fish jjcr ship; 311 ships which 

 were fitted out, having only procured in the seven 

 years 2151 whales. From 1719 to the present time, 

 the fishery of the Hamburghers was rarely suspend- 

 ed, but was generally conducted on a respectable 

 scale, and with like success as that of the neighbour- 

 ing provinces of Holland. The Greenland ships 

 fitted out of Hamburgh in 1794, consisted of 25 

 sail ; in 1795, 18 ; 1796, 19 ; and in 1797, 19. In 

 1802 the Hamburgh fleet consisted of 15 sail, and 

 their cargoes amounted to 62 whales, or 1011 casks 

 of blubber, which produced 3409 barrels of oil. 



* Zorgdi-ager's Groenlandschc Visschery, p. 262,-270. 



