'Whale or Greenland Fishery', 1720, (1946). British whaling ships off the coast of Greenland: sailors in small rowing boats hunt whales with harpoons; men attack a polar bear at bottom left, and a walrus is shot and clubbed on the right. From "British Polar Explorers", by Admiral Sir Edward Evans. [Collins, London, 1946]

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