ESCHRICHT AND REINHARDT 



Commercial Years. 



Arrival of the Whale. 



Departure of the Whale 



1822 



Dec. 12, 1821 



June 9, 1822. 



1823 



Nov. 30, 1822 



5, 1823. 



1824 



Jan. 6, 1824 



„ 10, 1824. 



1825 



Dec. 7, 1824 



„ 14, 1825. 



1826 



„ 8, 1825 



May 20, 1826. 



1827 



„ 3, 1826 



June 5, 1827. 



1828 



Nov. 29, 1827 



„ 12, 1828. 



1829 



Dec. 7, 1828 



May 19, 1829. 



1830 



„ 1, 1829 



June 1, 1830. 



1831 



Dec. 13, 1830 



May 18, 1831. 



1832 



„ 16,1831 



June 4, 1832. 



1833 



„ 2, 1832 



May 8, 1833. 



1834 



Nov. 25, 1833 



June 8, 1834. 



1835 



Dec. 26, 1834 



„ 24, 1835. 



1836 



Nov. 23, 1835 



„ 20, 1836. 



1837 



„ 19, 1836 



9, 1837. 



Thus, the whale has most commonly disappeared from Disco Bay by the middle of June, but 

 in Omenak Sound, in the 71st degree of latitude, it is found not only through the whole month 

 of June, but it is even mentioned in journals kept during the short period in which a whale-fishery 

 was attempted in that bay (which is almost totally covered with ice during six months of the year) 

 that whales have been seen as late as the beginning of July, and it is particularly stated that in 

 the year 1803, on the 11th of July, a young whale was captured near the Saitok Islands, situated 

 in the innermost recesses of the bay. Between the 72nd and 73rd degree, finally, near the 

 factory of Upernavik and the establishment " Proven," situated eight Danish miles further 

 southwards, the whales make their appearance in autumn, considerably earlier than at the more 

 southerly parts of the coast. They have regularly been observed there by the month of October, 

 in some instances even at the end of September ; they are then seen throughout November and 

 some part of December, and again towards spring, from April until July. Whether they, during 

 the intervening time, leave these latitudes to go further southwards or no, in other words, whether 

 they visit Upernavik at two different times of the year, or really stay there from September till 

 June, is a question still undecided, but the former alternative seems to be the most probable. 



Upernavik (72° 48') is the most northerly Danish factory, and therefore the most northerly 

 spot inhabited by Europeans on the western coast of Greenland. In order to obtain information 

 about the appearance of the whale in Baffin's Bay, in a latitude still more northerly, we shall be 

 obliged to have recourse to travellers who have visited those parts, both in former and in recent 

 times. It will be seen, then, from the statements of such travellers, that the whale is met with in 

 the most northerly part of Baffin's Bay, in the months of July and August, during which time it 

 has disappeared from all parts of the coast along which the Danish factories are situated. Thus, 

 we are told by Baffin^ that many whales were observed by him in 1616, in the beginning of 

 July, in Whale Sound and Sir Thomas Smith's Sound, consequently about the 78th degree ; and 

 in a letter to John Wostenholme, which Purchas has preserved,^ he particularly points out this 



•^ ' Purclias, his Pilgrimes,' part iii, p. 846. 

 " Loc. cit., p. 843. 



