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“It is evident that the whale butchery of Vadsö
is just now at its worst, the whale at present floating
being the thirty-eighth taken this summer within
little more than a month. The steamers go out
for five or ten hours, and come back with a carcass,
and thus new mountains of flesh are hauled upon
the great slab before the fragments of the last can
be worked off to their final destination. One of
the great features of this Vadsö whale fishery is
the economic utilization of the whole animal. The
Greenland fishers pitch the flesh, entrails, &c., into
the open sea, using only the blubber and bone;
but here the whole remaining bulk of the
monstrous beast is converted into ‘waal-fisk-guano.’
Just now, the guano verk cannot overtake the
supply of flesh, and thus so many tons are floating
or stranded, and rotting in the continuous sunlight
of the Arctic summer.
“I have examined some samples of this guano.
It is a much darker powder than the cods’-head
guano, has an offensive odour, and is quite unfit
for any feeding purposes, but is doubtless a
valuable manure.
“The Norwegian whale fishery is likely to
extend beyond Vadsö, and become a serious rival to
that of Greenland, unless the facilities afforded by
the harpoon guns exterminate the whales. The
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