The Belgian cetologist Pierre-Joseph van Beneden (1878, 1892) repeated such assertions by saying that the Basques, in the year 1372, found the number of whales to increase on approach of the Newfoundland Banks.
Belgijski cetologist Pierre-Joseph van Beneden (1878., 1892.) ponavlja takve tvrdnje rekavši da su Baski, godine 1372, pronašli broj kitova koji se povećavao približavanjem obali Newfoundlanda.