OBSERVATIONS MADE IN GREENLAND AND OTHER NORTHERN COUNTRIES

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The masters do not willingly sail in amongst the ice, when it is dark, or foggy, or stormy, which must be expected in the spring, and the small sheets of ice swim up and down in the sea, which the skippers must avoid, lest they lose their ships. It may seem something strange, that they sail so often to the ice and back again, but there is the same teason for it as in hunting after deer, if we do not find whales in one place, we must seek them in others; for the fortune in catching of whales is like the chances of gaming, and there is no great understanding required to find them: some see and catch more than they desire, and others but at half a miles distance from them, see not one, which is very common.

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THE 1671 WHALING EXPEDITION OF THE JONAS IN THE WHALE

MARTEN, FREDERIC