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  • This is to give notice, to all gentlemen, ladies, and others, that there is arriv'd at this place a little wild man, born in St. David's Streights, aged 27 years : he is 34 inches high, streight, very well proportioned ...
  • Greenland: above, indigenous fish including seals; centre, three different whales; below, whale fisher in their attire. Coloured engraving.
  • This is to give notice, to all ladies, gentlemen and others, that there is arrived at this place a little wild man born in St. David's Streights, aged 27 years : he is 34 inches high, straight, very well proportioned ...
  • Whaling: sailors arriving at Greenland to kill whales, their ships being out at sea. Aquatint by R. Dodd, 1789.
  • Greenland: fishermen spearing whales from the safety of their boats; right, whale fisher in their attire. Coloured engraving.
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    The history of Greenland: containing a description of the country, and its inhabitants: and particularly, a relation of the mission, carried on for above these thirty years by the Unitas Fratrum, at New Herrnhuth and Lichtenfels, in that country / by David Crantz. Translated from the High-Dutch.

    Cranz, David, 1723-1777. | Date: 1767
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    Fauna Groenlandica systematice sistens animalia Groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificum, triviale, vernaculumque : synonyma auctorum plurium, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum, capturamque singuli, prout detegendi occasio fuit maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes / Othonis Fabricii.

    Fabricius, Otto, 1744-1822. | Date: 1780
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    Grønland geographisk og statistisk beskrevet / af H. Rink.

    Rink, H. (Hinrich), 1819-1893. | Date: 1857
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    Postage stamps ephemera. Box 5A.

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    This is to give notice, to all gentlemen, ladies, and others, that there is arriv'd at this place a little wild man, born in St. David's Streights, aged 27 years : he is 34 inches high, streight, very well proportioned ...

    | Date: [1979]
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