HOLLAND & GREENLAND in 1600 & 1700 Greenland was formally a Danish -Norwegian country until 1814 , when the island was Danish following the dissolution of the Danish-Norwegian personal union . The real fact is,it had long been governed from the Danish - Norwegian joint capital Copenhagen . In 1600 and 1700 there could be freely traded in Greenland . Many a ship went up the coast , where it would ay anchored off the small Greenlandic settlements , especially well attended was the Southwest Greenland . It was a heyday of whaling . A large and growing demand for fat and trans in the 1600-1700 - century whaling did extremely attractive. Lard and transparencies were used for burning in lamps, lubricating oil and there was also traded with fox fur and seal , narwhal and walrus teeth. Greenlanders got clothes , tools , glass beads, faience and liqueur in exchange. Dutchmen and Englishmen cultivated intensive whaling in Greenland waters , and in this context, emerged much trade with the local Inuit , especially the Dutch sat down on the trade. The whalers used their position for their own benefit in the form of exorbitant exploitation accompanied by spirits and diseases. This abomination continued until the Danes gained control of the country. The Whalehunters indecent behavior and the old consciousness of a right to Greenland gave rise to King Christian 4 renewed attempt to gain control of the area. In 1605 the Danish managed during the English pilot James Halls guidance to gain acces the Danish to land on Greenlands west coast , and in 1636 established a Greenland Trading Company in Copenhagen without this becoming of any importance . However, the Dutch still continued having a major conflict with the Danes and still continued trading with the natives of Greenland from early times and as late as 1746 there were still 40 Dutch fishing and merchant vessels in the Davis Strait, so it is not any wonder that we have so many whalers in Greenland genera. For our part, there are both British, German and Dutch whalers etc. I just have not figured out to move forward in the Dutch archives - almost like looking for needle in a haystack when you encounter the Dutch in ones ancestry.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 10:46:52 +0000
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