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Running from the the whale the pike being fast in her, or sitting upon the Spanish wheel-barrow
Two boats use a line to tug a whale spouting water that attempts to swim away. Also known as ��sitting on the Spanish wheel-barrow��. A sailor in a boat prepares to shoot a polar bear in the foreground.
One of a series of 12 engravings from Views of the Greenland Whale Fishery (Kline Visschery). Titles in Dutch, German, and English. Each inscribed S. Vdr. Meulen Delineavit. A Vander Laan Fecit. P. Schenk Iun: Excud[it]. Amst[erdam] Cum Priv[ilegio].
