208 [MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON THE ARCTIC WHALE-FISHERY. 
whalers~of the' present day do not regard Bears as very for- 
midable animals, no less than 200 having been killed by them 
in the past season of 1905, and four brought home alive. 
I am indebted to Mr. H. J. Hilling of Lynn for the following 
extracts from a memorandum book formerly in the possession 
of the late Mr. Aldridge of Blackfriars Street, Lynn. 
1795. July 21. Arrived [at Lynn] the Balcena from 
Greenland with six fish ; the Experiment, seven, 
and the Form with three fish. 
1796. July 9th. The Experiment from Greenland arrived 
with eight fish. 
1797. July 28th. The Fountain from Greenland arrived 
at Lynn with eleven fish ; and the Experiment 
also arrived with ten. 
1798. Aug. 3rd. Experiment in the [Lynn] Roads with 
one fish. 
1799. July 23rd. Experiment arrived with four fish. 
July 26th. Fountain arrived with seven fish. 
pSoo. July 21st. Experiment with six fish. 
Aug. 2nd. Founlaine with five fish. 
1801. July 19th. Fountaine arrived with eight fish; 
Experiment, two fish. 
1802. July 15th. Experiment, nine fish. 
July 18th. Fountaine, six fish. 
Mr. Hilling was also kind enough to write me as follows : 
“ Thomas Baines, the grandfather of Thomas Baines of Kings 
Lynn the artist and explorer, was captain of a small vessel 
engaged in the Whale-fishery from the port of Lynn. In 
looking through some more of Baines’ papers I came across 
a; page out of the log of the Experiment. It is headed ‘ in 
Greenland,’ 1804, and gives two days’ work, Monday and 
Tuesday," 23rd and 24th April. On the reverse is a rough 
drawing ofjthe Lady Andover — a three-mast vessel, ‘ built in 
the year 1805, of Wells.’ ” 
The ‘Norfolk Chronicle,’ under the date of August 15th, 
1818, records the arrival at Lynn of the whaler Enterprise, 
Capt. Sanderson, with eleven fish, supposed to produce 
