ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE FINWHALE FISHERY. 139 
Gray found them (Proc. Zool. Soc., 1882, p. 727) to yield, 
independently of spermaceti. 
Contrary to what one would expect, the further east the 
longitude the later it appeared that whales remained off the 
coast. In West Finmarken the season was over by the beginning 
of August; at Vardé the last whale was the Common Rorqual 
previously mentioned as found dead at sea, and brought in on 
the 15th of that month ; while such of the whalers as went out 
during the week I remained there invariably came back without 
having seen a whale; and at the date of my departure (the 21st) 
they were beginning at the factories to clear up ready for their 
return south, and all started, I believe, at the beginning of 
September; while on the Murmanski coast I met with the 
following whales at later dates:—As we passed Kobholm Fjord, 
on August 21st, we passed a whaler steaming out, towing the 
krang of a whale, no doubt on the way to the “ Kraftfoder” 
factory in Jar Fjord; this had been most likely killed within the 
last two or three days, and at any rate was probably captured 
later than the last taken into Vardé. On August 22nd, at the 
whaling station at Arra, there was a large Blue Whale; and on 
the same day, at the whaling station at Eretiki, a Blue Whale, 
and a Common Rorqual; all three, I believe, killed on the 
previous day. On the 24th we met one of the Russian whalers 
towing a Common Rorqual off Noknev Island about long. EH. G. 
38° 80’; and the evening of the same day, when off Swjatoi Nos 
(about long. 39° 45’), I saw a whale—apparently a Humpback— 
heading straight out from the land; when it had got well out to 
the N.N.E. of us, I made out with the help of a glass that it was 
joined by a second. A few minutes later I saw a third whale, 
probably the same species, ahead of the ship, and heading in the 
same direction as the first. Ten minutes or so later again I saw 
two whales in company, which I am tolerably certain were 
Common Rorquals. 
I saw no whales in the White Sea while on the way to 
Archangel, but on September 7th, when leaving the White Sea 
and approaching Gorodetsk Point, we passed several. First a 
pair of Common Rorquals heading §8., apparently playing 
together; they frequently made the water foam, and once or 
twice a flipper was raised straight out of the water, showing that 
the whale was then on its side. One of them, a male, turned 
