72 GREENLAND VOYAGE. 
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our harpoons; hut another, the last that appeared 
during the day, was struck. It remained about 
forty minutes under water, without once coming 
to the surface, and then rising in the midst of the 
boats, was very soon dispatched. The flensing 
was immediately undertaken, and accomplished 
in about four hours. One ship was in sight, the 
Altona of Altone, which also made a capture. 
Sunday, June 2 .—Several whales were seen 
during the afternoon and evening; and the Al¬ 
tona was observed to have all her boats in cliaee. 
The harpooners were so tantalized by seeing 
whales in considerable numbers, which they were 
not allowed to pursue, that I was obliged to order 
them from the mast-head, and to run the ship 
out of the way. 
As soon as the Sabbatli was concluded, we ap¬ 
proached the edge of a large floe, where the whales 
had been seen, and soon had sufficient encourage¬ 
ment to send all the boats to the chace. In a 
bight formed by the angles of two or three floes, 
an extraordinary number of “ fish” were seen; they 
were in shoals of half a dozen or more together, 
sporting occasionally, and enlivening, by their fre¬ 
quent appearance, this otherwise barren region of 
solemn stillness and desolation. A thick fog set in 
soon after the boats were dispatched, and hid seve¬ 
ral of them from our observation for two or three 
