Strait and Greenland, Avitli wliat judgment and skill may bo 
inferred from the small list of casualties recorded. 
During tlie past season (1881) nine Dundee vessels went to the 
Greenland Seal fishery, capturing 12,o59 Seals, and six to tlic 
NeAvfoundland fishery for 139,985 Seals. They afterwards, with 
two or three exceptions, went north to the Davis Strait Whale 
fishery. 
The Peterhead fleet is now reduced to three steamers, one 
sailing barque, and one brig. One of the steamers has hunted the 
Hooded Seals for the past two seasons, the other two have con- 
tinued to prosecute the Greenland Whale fishery ; but in the 
interval between the taking the young Saddle-back Seals and the 
2flth of May, on which day they start on the Whale fishery, they 
either shoot old Saddle-backs, or go south to the east coast of 
Iceland in search of - Pottle-nose Whales. Of the two sailing 
vessels the barque proceeds to the Seal and Pottle-nose Whale 
fishery, or to Gumberland Gulf in search of Whales; the brig takes 
])art only in the Seal fishery. The five Peterhead ships have taken 
11,425 Seals, and 94 Pottle-nose Whales in the Greenland seas 
during the past season (1881). 
The Norwegians go south, and hunt the Hooded Seals during 
the months of May and June. Most of their produce comes to 
Dundee or London. 
The Danish settlements on the Avest coast of Greenland, Avhich 
Avere established for the jAurposc of hunting the Light Whales 
from the shore in spring, as they came north on their annual mi- 
gration, capture very feAv Whales iioaa'^, their produce being almost 
entirely Seals and Walrus. 
Prom the statistics of the Dundee sealers given above, it Avill be 
seen that vast numbers of Seals are taken annually on the Ncav- 
foundland or Labi’ador ice. I have said that Captain Adams, 
finding the Greenland Seal fishery “practically used up,” determined 
to try the NeAvfoundland sealing ground : the result has been, that 
since 187G the port of Dundee has been Avell represented in that 
quartei; and Avith considerable advantage to the vessels engaged. 
The ships IcaAm Dundee in the first Aveek of Pebruary, calling at 
St. Jobn’s to complete their crcAvs. They are not alloAved to clear 
at the Customs in NeAvfoundland for scaling till the 10th of 
