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Strait has been a decided success, and the number of Whales 
seen was considerable. Three Scotch vessels, the ‘ Eclipse,’ the 
‘ Ksquimaux,’ and the ‘Nova Zembla,’ were present. Capt. 
Milne, of the ‘ Eclipse,’ reports that from the middle of Septem- 
ber till the middle of October Whales were very plentiful, and 
that he never saw so many during all his experience. Leaving 
Dundee on March 30th, he experienced a long and stormy 
passage, arriving in Davis Strait too late for the north-west and 
east side fishery. Disco was reached on May 28th, and the 
passage through Melville Bay presented no difficulties. The 
west side of the Strait was reached on June 15th, on which day 
the first Whale was seen. On the following day a large number 
of fish were seen, and one struck but lost; and a second also 
broke away. On the 20th, however, a good fish was secured. In 
Lancaster Sound the three Dundee vessels were caught in a 
heavy gale and beset for a week. About Oct. 8th a great many 
Whales were sighted, twenty miles off Cape Kater, but owing to 
heavy seas and unsettled weather more than one was missed; 
and on the 13th so rough was the weather that a large fish 
which had been got alongside broke adrift and was lost. On the 
16th, however, they were more fortunate, and secured a fine fish 
of 11 ft. 4 in. bone, but not till after an exciting experience—by 
a stroke of the Whale’s tail one of the boats was upset and her 
crew of six men thrown into the water. Fortunately all were 
rescued, but not till one of them was in a very exhausted 
condition. Many more Whales were seen by the * Kclipse’ near 
Hopper Island, and one taken; had she not had the misfortune 
to lose five Whales owing to stormy weather, doubtless the 
‘Eclipse’ would have returned a full ship; as it was she had 
three good Whales and three Walrus. The ‘Nova Zembla’ 
succeeded in capturing four Whales; her experience was much 
the same as that of the ‘ Eclipse. Many Whales were seen in 
the longitude of Cape Warrander, Pond’s Inlet, Coutts Inlet, and 
in the vicinity of Clyde River. The ‘EKsquimaux,’ which had 
been to the Newfoundland sealing, sailed from Cape Breton on 
May 20th, and took her only fish in Pond’s Bay on June 16th. 
Although in her autumn passage down the west side of the Strait 
several other Whales were seen, the weather conditions rendered 
their pursuit impossible; in fact, it was the prevalence of 
