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