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should doe whether he should cutt her loos … should doe whether he should cutt her loose or not and the sayd Master then commanding the sayd Gosling<br />
Parker Maundrie humfreys and the rest of the harponeeres who had given<br />
over the chase to manne their boates and goe to the assistance of the sayd Parker<br />
they all stood still and did not goe, whereupon the Master sayd, I see there<br />
is noe body will assiste, therefore doe what you will, and then the sayd Parker<br />
alsoe cut loose and came aboard with his Crew alsoe, this hee deposeth of his<br />
owne sight and knowledge being aboard the ''Owners Adventure'' during the<br />
chase and seeing and hearing the premisses And saith hee believeth if the<br />
sayd Gosling Maundrie and humfreys had not left off the chase of the<br />
whale in manner aforesayd they might have killed her, and saith hee<br />
the rather beleeveth it, for that hee heard the sayd humfreys in the Cooke<br />
Roome of the ''Owners Adventure'' after his coming on board sayd in presence<br />
of this deponent and his precontest Thomas Chauntrell and others that<br />
after the sayd Maundrie and Gosling had with their boates given over the<br />
chase, hee hawled up his boate and gave the whale a prick or two in<br />
the tayle to make her carrie the faster that he might cutt her away<br />
And further hee cannot depose./
To the 7th he saith that at such time as the sayd Maundrie spake<br />
the words predeposed and thereby discouraged the shipps Company from<br />
workeing further in toward shoare, the sayd shipps ''Owners Adventure''<br />
and ''Greyhound'' were in this deponents judgement about five or six leagues<br />
off of Bell Point, And hee verily beleeveth that sayd shipps might<br />
have gotten to shoare, being gotten soe neere, if they would have stayed<br />
to watch an oportunitie of the opening of the Ice (as some tymes it<br />
doth) with as little danger as they wrought out againe, And further<br />
to this article he cannot depose for that hee hath gone a voyage to Greenland<br />
when there hath bin little or noe Ice to hinder shipps from getting into Port
To the 8th and 9th hee saith that the arlate John Maundrie was with his shipp<br />
in Company of the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' and the other fower shipps<br />
that wrought with them into the Ice, when they were all without at the edge<br />
of the Ice, but parted with them there, and went further Northwards, and saith<br />
hee hath since his Comming home from the voyage in question heard the<br />
Masters of the fower shipps that did worke into the Ice with the ''Owners''<br />
''Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' saye that they did (after they had lost the<br />
Company of the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' at sea by foggie weather) gett<br />
into harbour, and kill divers whales, videlicet the sayd Welch and Golding<br />
betwixt them twelve whales, and the sayd Pybus eight whales, and the sayd<br />
Childe five whales, and made all of them good voyages And soe he<br />
verily beleeveth and is perswaded in conscience the ''Owners Adventure''<br />
and ''Greyhound'' might have done if the sayd Gosling and Maundrie<br />
had not by their evell carriage and speeches and backwardnesse to<br />
worke to harbour discouraged the sayd shipps<br />
Company and so prevented the same And further saving his<br />
exceedingly<br />
preiudiced the sayd voyage as aforesayd And further hee cannot depose
To the 10th hee saith that hee knoweth not what it cost the arlate Batson Beane<br />
and Golderne to victuall and fitt the sayd shipps for the voyage in question but beleeveth<br />
ite in question but beleeveth<br />
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