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company, Capt. Evensen, talking of the length of Blue Whales, 
told me that his steamer-is eighty-four feet long (presumably 
Norwegian feet, and = 12} inches English), and assured me . 
that he had this season taken a Blue Whale which was longer 
than the steamer. 
We took on board 600 sacks of ‘‘ Kraftfoder,” an artificial 
manure of krang and bones dried, ground, and mixed, the 
freight on which to Hamburg amounted to £75 (= 1500 marks). 
There, I understood, it undergoes some chemical process before 
it is ready for the market. 
At Vardé, on August 15th, I had an opportunity of seeing a 
so-called ‘‘ Bastard’? (= hybrid) whale, which to me appeared to 
be simply a Common Rorqual. It was a male, measuring (I was 
told) sixty-four feet six inches English, and was picked up dead 
at sea. The left side of its under jaw at the tip end was black, 
while the corresponding portion of the right side was white. 
The black extended down the left side of its chin for a yard or so 
from the symphysis of the jaw, and thence only the concavities 
of the furrows were black. The concavities of the central 
furrows were buff-coloured, the first few concavities on the right 
side black, with slight streaks of white, which gradually widened 
so as to fill the whole width of the concavities. The flipper on 
the outer side was blue, with almost a brownish tinge at the 
proximal end; the inner side white, which extended round the 
anterior margin to the outer side; while the blue of the outer 
side overlapped at the posterior margin, and gradually faded 
into white—that is, a width of about eight inches was blackish 
blue, the colour running out about thirteen or fourteen inches 
short of the tip of the flipper, but another ‘‘ wash” of grey-blue 
extended below this again. Length from head of humerus to 
tip, eight feet. The inside of the mouth and the tongue black, 
the latter with one or two small white patches. 
The ‘‘ Haabet ’? Company in Vardé, in addition to their steam 
whalers, had two schooners employed this season in Bottle-nose 
fishing in the direction of Iceland. One of them had returned, 
and was lying in Vardé at the time of my visit in August; she 
had taken nine Bottle-noses, which, I was told, gave from nine 
to ten casks of blubber apiece. The casks always used in 
Fiamarken are the American petroleum-casks. This would, 
I believe, amount to much less than the two tons of oil Capt. D. 
