Uncolored engraving depicting a whaling scene near Spitzbergen, from a book recounting a German traveler's voyage to the North in 1671. There are five whaling ships and many whaling boats chasing spouting whales on an ice-studded sea; in the background is a long ridge of ice beyond which the masts of other ships can be seen. In the foreground, sailors on the rightmost ship are peeling back the skin of a dead whale and harvesting the fat.
