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in or words to that effect whereupon the C … in or words to that effect whereupon the Company seeing both the<br />
mates soe averse and backward to worke in toward shoare were very<br />
much discouraged and the seamen stood still and asked the Master what they should<br />
doe and the master answered and sayd goe aske the mates (meaning the sayd<br />
Gosling and Manndry) for I know not what to doe, I am over powered by [XXX GUTTER]<br />
or words to that effect and thereupon some of the Company went up into<br />
the mayne topp to discover whether the other shipps whose Company they had<br />
did follow them, or make towards seawards, and told the sayd damerell the<br />
other shipps were workeing out of the Ice to seawards whereupon the sayd damerell<br />
went up himselfe into the maine topp and when he came downe sayd, I [see they GUTTER]<br />
are workeing out, therefore turne the shipps and work out alsoe or<br />
words to that effect, And saith that the sayd shipps by reason of the sayd<br />
Gosling and Maundries their unwillingnesse (both at the tymes before [XXXX GUTTER]<br />
and after during the whole voyage) to worke into the Ice towards the shoare, and<br />
their discouraging of the Company with their speeches, did not gett into<br />
harbour that voyage by which meanes the sayd shipps ''Owners Adventure''<br />
and ''Greyhound'' returned home with only a smale quantitie of bloober<br />
oyle, and ffinne and the voyage was thereby exceedingly preiudiced<br />
And further to these articles hee cannot depose.
To the 6th he saith that after the sayd two shipps ''Owners Adventure''<br />
and ''Greyhound'' had wrought themselves out to sea againe their Company<br />
espied a whale (being as hee beleeveth the whale in this article mentioned<br />
and the sayd Gosling humfreys Manndry and Parker and other harponeeres<br />
and every of their boates crues (which are five a peece beside the harponeere) did<br />
chase the sayd Whale, and the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' sayled up and downe after<br />
the boates as in such cases is accustomed, and saith the sayd Parker did fasten<br />
to the whale, and soe alsoe did the sayd humphreys, and the rest of the<br />
harponeeres not having oportunitie to fasten to her by reason of her swifte<br />
motion, did fasten their boates to the boate of the sayd humfreys to [hinder GUTTER]<br />
motion and tyre her with towing them and saith that they continued the<br />
chase of the sayd whale eight or tenn howres and more, but saith that in [this GUTTER]<br />
tyme the said Maundrie did cast off or lett loose, three of the boates<br />
that were in chase and not fast to the whale twice or [thrice GUTTER]<br />
by which meanes he did very much hinder them in the tyreing out<br />
the whale with their weight, they being faine to rowe up and downe two or<br />
three leagues before they could come neare to fasten their boates on to<br />
other as they were before, and saith that the sayd Maundrie and Gosling<br />
(after they had chased the sayd whale about [XX GUTTER]<br />
howers came aboard the ''Owners Adventure'' with their boates, and sayd<br />
that the whale was not to be killed her motion was soe swift and the<br />
winde then blowing fresh, which notwithstanding the master commanded<br />
there in regards humfreys and Parker continued still fast to goe off in<br />
their boates againe and helpe them to kill the whale, and sayd the sayd Gosling<br />
and Maundrie answered and sayd shee was a divell and noe whale, and<br />
they could not kill her, and that they would goe off noe more or words to that<br />
effect: whereupon the sayd humfrey without any order from the Master<br />
cut loose from the whale and came aboard the ''Owners Adventure'' hee and his<br />
boats Crue, and the said Master seeing that all but the sayd Parker and<br />
his Crue had given over the chase of the sayd whale caused the shipp to<br />
bee steered towards the whale, and the whale comming neere the shipp and<br />
the sayd Parker still being fast to her hee the sayd Parker asked the Master what<br />
[XXXX GUTTER] the Master what<br />
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