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Transcription

they turned back to mak (sic) out to sea against And saith that hee this deponent
did by the Compasse observe that Bell Point did beare East South East of the Owners Adventure
of Bell point when shee was at the furthest place shee could get within the
Ice, and saith it was in the Judgment and apprehension of this deponent
and alsoe esteemed and declared by most of the Company of the sayd
shipp Adventure that it was a mervilous deliverance that the sayd shipp
should gett safe to sea against being soe farr engaged in the Ice And,
further to this article hee cannot depose/

To the 10th hee saith that the sayd damerell having gott out of the Ice and
releeved the sayd Pybus his shipp in manner aforesayd some thick and
foggie weather happening at Sea the sayd damerell thereby lost the company
of the sayd fower shipps videlicet the sayd Pibus Welch Golding and Childe
roved up and downe at Sea after dutch shipps consorting with them upon
new designes following then to a place called hope island where the dutch
having killed about a hundred sea horses and taken their teethe leaving the
carcasses on shoare the damorell (sic) caused thirteene lande men hee
had on board and belonging to this shipp to be putt on shoare in the sayd Island
to blubber the Carcases of the sayd sea horses that is to take off their
skinnes and take the fatt of them and bring it aboard in boates to make
oyle of, and saith that the sea running high the when the sayd men were
putt on shoare and while other of the shipps company (sea men) passed to
and froe in boates to bring the sayd blubber or fatt aboard, they were
exceedeingly mett with the violence of the seas beating upon them and
for want of other refreshments many both of the said land and sea men
fell sick of the scurvie, and some of them dyed, and saith that while
the shipps company were soe by his sayd damerells order imployed
about fetching the sayd blubber the sayd damerell went aboard of the
fflemish shipp and there continued three or fower howers drinking
and this deponent coming in the meane tyme with a shallopp on board
the sayd fleming, heard the sayd damerell speaking to one Mr Covell (sic)
(who was imployed by the owners of the shipp the Owners Adventure
to looke after their affaires) say that the sayd fflemish shipp had a designe
to goe to the back side of Greeneland, and sayd hee the sayd damerell
did intende with his shipp the Adventure to keepe them company
thither, or to that effect, and this deponent telling the sayd damerell
that the sea runne soe high that his company could not well bring off any
more blubber then they had done, and that they should hardly bee able
to bring the land men (who were a shore cutting the blubber) from
off the Island on board, hee the sayd damerell answered and sayd that
hee hoped it would bee such a fogg that they, could not see to
finde their way to the shipp (meaning the Adventure) and then they must staye
to cutt and bring all the blubber or words to that effect all which notwith=
standing the arlate Maundrey and Gosling and this deponent and the rest
of the Company of the shipp Owners Adventure did obey the Command
of