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note in manuscript in the British Museum entitled 

 " A briefe Narration of the Discoverie of the 

 Northern Seas and the Coasts and Countries of 

 those parts as it was first begunn and continewd by 

 the singular Industrie and charge of the Company 

 of Muscovie Merchants of London," and finally the 

 " Corte Deductie ende Remonstrantie van wegen 

 de Bewinthebbers ende Participanten vande 

 respectiue oude Noortse Compagnien ouet Delft, 

 Hoorn, Enckhuijsen, Vlissingen ende Veere, ouer- 

 gegeuen aende Hooge ende Mogende Heeren de 

 Staten Generael Vereenichde Nederlandtse Pro- 

 vintien." 1 



Of these the most valuable account from the whal- 

 ing standpoint is that by Fotherby. This account is 

 in manuscript in the possession of the American 

 Antiquarian Society, and contains illustrations of 

 the whale fishery together with a description of 

 the fishery. It is really the original description of 

 Fotherby's first voyage (of three). 2 This account 

 has been reprinted twice, and in addition quoted 

 extensively by Conway (" No Man's Land "). 



The Dutch version of the occurrences at Spits- 

 bergen in 1612 and 1613 is given by Hessel 

 Gerritsz van Assum. 8 



1 See Miiller. " Noordsche Compagnie," p. 3^3. 



3 " Transactions and Collections of the American Archaeological 

 Society," Vol. iv. (1860), p. 285; reprinted by the Hakluyt Society 

 in a volume entitled " The Voyages of William Baffin," London, 

 1881. 



' " Histoire du pays nomine" Spitsberghe. Monstrant comment 

 qu'il est trouvee, son naturel et ses animauls, avecques la 

 triste racompte des maux, que nos pecheurs tant Basques que 

 Flamens, ont eu a souffrir des Anglois, en 1' este passee P An 



