250 REV. F. A. WALKER, D.D., F.L.S., ETC. 
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the bones are turned to good account, being ground down to 
serve for the same purpose as guano. The whale above 
mentioned may have been hemmed in by the ice, and so got 
aground, or, being a Baleena (rorqual, in other words, and so 
without teeth), may have been pursued to land by what is 
known as the whale of prey, with teeth, namely, the Cachalot, 
Greenland, or sperm whale. 
Dyrafjordr was the next place I visited, and there are 
many large bones of whales at this place also. One of the 
two Norwegian whaling companies is established here, and 
makes a great deal of money by shooting whales, which are 
rapidly diminishing in number accordingly. On the last 
expedition they obtained thirty or forty. 
At Dyrafjordr also may be seen from time to time vessels 
of all nations engaged in the cod fishery. English and 
American vessels are anchored in its harbour at the present 
time, and have been there most of the summer, and will 
return home about the middle of August. From one of our 
own fishermen I learned that they had taken about 30,000 or 
40,000 cad this season, and from the conversation of one 
of the American fishermen with the Danish steward of the 
“Thyra,” that the Americans put down their halibut im salt, 
and that immediately on their arrival in New York they were 
dispatched to Chicago and the far west, where there was a 
great demand for them. Sometimes the prices were low, 
and on other occasions they fetched a great deal of money. 
He also stated that halibut sold for 5 or 6 cents a pound, that 
the very large and fat ones were not so good as those of 
more moderate size, and that the fins were particularly good 
eating, and that the English vessel was provided with tanks 
of water to bring the halibut home alive. 
Onunadafjord possesses four smacks engaged in the shark 
fishery, and a great many barrels of shark oil were brought 
off to the steamer in a small boat from a merchant’s factory 
this morning, and transferred to the hold. This place is also 
an emporium for whale oil, but the whaling company, I 
understand, send it away direct in their own boats, as many 
as 900 barrels having been sent at one time. The shark oil 
establishment is situate close to the shore, beneath the hills. 
not like the rest of the village, on a low projecting point, 
And we landed here from the steamer this morning in a boat 
redolent of train oil. The best fishing ground at this present 
day in the west of Iceland is off a little village known as 
Bolungarvik. 
Hnifsdalr, another fishing hamlet of great repute, is next 
