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the Fiord of Amertlok, fis on the 3rd of April, 1805, and on the 9th of April, 1820, and some- 

 times a single whale may have been left behind even a long time after the others have disappeared ; 

 thus, in the year 1806 a whale was seen in the Tiord of Amertlok so late as the 14th of April, 

 more than three weeks after all its companions had departed. 



To this general sketch of the appearance of the whale at Holsteinsborg we will add a table 

 extracted from the journals kept at the settlement, which will show, for a period of thirty-six 

 commercial years, the dates of the first and last appearances of the whale. 



Commercial Years.' 



Arrival of the Whale. 



Departure of the Whale 



17S0 



Jan. 9, 1780 



March 



2, 1780. 



1781 



„ 6, 1781 



5} 



4, 1781. 



1782 



Dec. 21, 1781 



„ 



23, 1782. 



1783 



Jan. 10, 1783 



„ 



4, 1783. 



1784 



„ 14, 1784 



3) 



13, 1784. 



1785 



Nov. 22, 1784 



3) 



6, 1785. 



1800 



„ 29, 1799 



„ 



1, 1800. 



1801 



Dec. 22, 1800 



„ 



28, 1801. 



1804 



„ 7, 1803 



„ 



11, 1804. 



1805 



„ 3, 18Q4 



April 



3, 1805. 



1806 



„ 5, 1805 



March 



20, 1806. 



1807 



„ 9, 1806 



» 



5, 1807. 



1808 



„ 6, 1807 



Febr. 



26, 1808. 



1809 



Nov. 28, 1808 



March 27, 1809. 



1810 



Dec. 8, 1809 



Pebr. 



18, 1810. 



1811 



„ 26, 1810 



„ 



21, 1811. 



18ia 



Jan. 22, 1812 



March 



7, 1812. 



1813 



Dec. 25, 1812 



„ 



30, 1813, 



1814 



„ 13, 1813 



„ 



24, 1814.- 



1815 



„ 8, 1814 



„ 



27, 1815. 



1818 



Nov. 30, 1817 



Jan. 



28, 1818. 



1819 



Dec. 7, 1818 



March 29, 1819. 



1820 



„ 7, 1819 



April 



9, 1820. 



1821 



„ 22, 1820 



Marcl 



I 6, 1821. 



1822 



„ 17, 1821 



» 



9, 1822. 



^ The communication between the different factories and the smaller establishments adjoined 

 being extremely difficult, sometimes even impossible during the vpinter, reports and accounts cannot be 

 closed with the common year of the Church ; a commercial year, so called, has therefore been 

 instituted, calculated from the 1st of July till the 30th of the following June, being half a year in 

 advance of the common one. Such are the commercial years alluded to in the table. As we have 

 not been able to obtain for our inspection the journals for an uninterrupted series of years, we could 

 not reduce them into common years. It must be added, that for the first six commercial years the 

 dates mentioned are not those of the appearance and disappearance of the whales, but they point out 

 the days on which the first and the last whale were caught, or at least harpooned ; the journals 

 themselves for these years we have not been able to examine, but only an abridgment of them, which 

 was kindly lent to us by a member of the Society, the late Dr. Pingel, and this abridged statement, 

 composed by Jorgen Frederik Egede, then a merchant of the factory, does not give any further 

 information. 



