620 U. S. Consul McDougaWs Report on Oils and Jute at Dundee. 



sill at Dundee, in relatiou to the whale lisheiy and jute manufactory carried on 

 at that place. 



" I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, 



"WM. M. EVAKTS. 

 "The Hon. K. W. Thompson, 



" Secretary of the Navy.'''' 



Mr. McDougall to Mr. Seivard, November 10, 1877. 



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Consulate of the United States of America, 



Dundee, November 16, 1877. 

 Sm : Referring to your dispatch ISTo. 72, dated the 2d ultimo, and to my 

 acknowledgment of receipt of same per dispatch Xo. 136, dated the 16th of that 

 month, I have now the honor to send you " statistics of the whale fishery and of 

 the jute manufactory carried on at the port of Dundee for the years 1865 to 1875," 

 which are supplemented by figiu-es relating to the whale fishery for the years 

 1876 and 1877 and to the jute trade for certain years previous to 1865 and for the 

 years 1876 and 1877. I also give you various other tables connected with the 

 development of these industries, and such information bearing on these subjects 

 as I consider may be useful. 



WHALE-FISHING INDUSTRY. 



Having entered very fully into this subject in my annual report forwarded 

 to your Department for this year, ending 30th September, I beg to state that the 

 quoted matter under this heading is taken from that document. 



" The success attending the whaling-fleet belonging to this port was consid- 

 erably greater in 1876 than in 1875. All the vessels, twelve in number, i)rosecuted 

 both seal and whale fishing in 1876. The only change in the course usually fol- 

 lowed was by one vessel, which went to Labrador instead of Greenland, with the 

 other ships. The total catch at the seal-fishing was in 1876 57,776 seals, yield- 

 ing 625 tons of oil. Seal-oil last year was valued at £32 per ton, and the aver- 

 age price for skins was Gs. Taking the 625 tons of oil at £32 gives £20,000, and 

 57,776 skins at C>s. each produces the sum of £17,332 16s.; so that the value of 

 the seal-fishing in 1876 was £37,332 16.s'. Only one vessel returned clean from 

 the seal-fishing. 



The total catch at the whale-lishing was in 1S76 64 whales, yielding 824 



