Transcriber’s Notes Italic text displayed as: _italic_ THE NORTHERN WHALE-FISHERY. THE NORTHERN WHALE-FISHERY. BY CAPTAIN SCORESBY, F.R.S.E. LONDON: THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY: _Instituted 1799._ PREFACE. The following pages are an abridgment, with some modifications and additions, of the second volume of captain (now the rev. Dr.) Scoresby’s work on the Arctic Regions and Whale-fishery, Edinburgh, 1820; the substance of the former volume having already appeared in this Monthly Series. The second chapter of the work, on the comparative view of the whale-fisheries of different European nations, has been entirely omitted, as less interesting, it is supposed, to the general reader, than the other chapters. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN WHALE-FISHERIES 9 CHAPTER II. SITUATION OF THE EARLY WHALE-FISHERY—THE MANNER IN WHICH IT WAS CONDUCTED—AND THE ALTERATIONS WHICH HAVE TAKEN PLACE 29 CHAPTER III. ACCOUNT OF THE MODERN WHALE-FISHERY, AS CONDUCTED AT SPITZBERGEN 40 CHAPTER IV. ACCOUNT OF THE DAVIS’S STRAIT WHALE-FISHERY, WITH STATEMENTS OF EXPENSES AND PROFITS OF A FISHING-SHIP 149 CHAPTER V. METHOD OF EXTRACTING OIL AND PREPARING WHALE-BONE, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THESE ARTICLES, AND REMARKS ON THE USES TO WHICH THE SEVERAL PRODUCTS OF THE WHALE-FISHERY ARE APPLIED 157 CHAPTER VI. NARRATIVE OF PROCEEDINGS ON BOARD THE SHIP ESK, DURING A WHALE-FISHING VOYAGE TO THE COAST OF SPITZBERGEN, IN THE YEAR 1816; PARTICULARLY RELATING TO THE PRESERVATION OF THE SHIP UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES OF PECULIAR DANGER 175 THE NORTHERN WHALE-FISHERY. CHAPTER I. CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN WHALE FISHERIES.