NOTES ON ARCTIC WHALING VOYAGE OF 1907. 63 
Whales, 36 White Whales, 634 Walruses, 1021 Seals, 258 Bears, 
740 Fox-skins, 97 tuns of oil, and 323 ewt. of bone. A large 
proportion of this miscellaneous collection was obtained at the 
winter stations. The price of whalebone, the quantity of which 
in hand from the North Atlantic is, I believe, very small, is about 
£2400 per ton, and that of oil £22 10s. per tun. The total 
value of the whole produce is roughly estimated only at about 
£13,000. 
What will be the result of the series of disastrous years, 
entailing so serious a loss upon the “‘ adventurers,” it is difficult 
to say. Perhaps there is no industry which offers such prizes 
to the successful, but the climatic conditions on which to so 
large an extent success depends are so uncertain that the enter- 
prising Dundee merchants may still be tempted to court fortune 
in the frozen North. 
T am, as usual, much indebted to Mr. Robert Kinnes, of 
Dundee, and for statistics to Mr. Mitchell’s ‘ Circular.’ 
