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hee alsoe did helpe to worke her in the si … hee alsoe did helpe to worke her in the sixe or seven myles<br />
and there the Company of the sayd shipps ''Owners Adventure'' and<br />
''Greyhound'' complayneing that they were wearied with workeing the sayd<br />
damerell seeing their unwillingnesse did give them leave to make fast to the ice againe and there they laye about twelve<br />
howers to refresh themselves, and then the sayd damerell againe<br />
Commanded the sayd shipps Companyes to manne their boates<br />
againe and worke the sayd shipps further in, and thereupon the<br />
sayd Gosling upon the open deck in presence of this deponent and divers others of the ''Owners Adventures'' Company sayd if wee doe gett in<br />
wee may perhapps bee frosen up, and it will be a great hazard<br />
and a question whether ever more gett out againe alive, or words<br />
to that effect, whereupon the sayd shipps Company were soe<br />
discouraged that they had noe desyre to worke in any further<br />
toward harbour and did not assist to work further in savinge get this deponent and divers some others (whereof<br />
the sayd Gosling Maundrey and humfreys were none) did man<br />
some boates and work a little further toward the right hand to a glace<br />
or opening in the Ice which they espied, and being gotten thither<br />
and seeing that the sayd glace did affoard a passage back toward<br />
seaward one Mathew Bowling who was in one of the boates called<br />
out to the rest of the boates Crewes and sayd to this effect come<br />
come, this glace will afford us a way to sea againe, and therefore<br />
lett us make to seaward, and the shipps (meaning the ''Owners Adventure'' and<br />
''Greyhound'') will follow, whereupon the sayd Bowling and his Boates<br />
Crew turneing about to Seaward the rest of the boates followed<br />
him and the shipps followed the boates the sayd Humfreys Gosling and Maundrie being on board the ''Owners Adventure'' but whether the sayd Bowling<br />
did the same without the order or Command of the Master and<br />
Contrarie to his likeing or by whose order hee did it or whether it was concluded upon on board<br />
the shipps by the Master and his Mates and the sayd Humfreys and others aboard<br />
to worke back to sea he knoweth not, for that he was in one of the boates<br />
and heard not what further passed on board after the sayd Gosling<br />
spake the words last predeposed of and saith that<br />
the words spoken by the sayd Gosling were a great discouragement<br />
to the Company and a hinderence to the success of the voyage in<br />
question as hee beleeveth And further saving his following deposition<br />
hee cannot depose./
To the 6th article of the libell hee saith that after the sayd two<br />
shipps ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' came out to sea againe they<br />
lost the Company of the sayd ffower London shipps through foggie<br />
, and stormy weather, and after they had lost their Company the<br />
sayd two shipps ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhounds'' Companyes haveing<br />
espied a whale at sea the sayd damerell Commanded the arlate Maundrey<br />
Gosling humfreys and the other harpooners of both shipps to mann their boates<br />
and give chase to the sayd Whale, and accordingly the sayd Gosling Maundrey<br />
humfreys [X]aud and Bowling and one Parker all harpooners with every of<br />
them their boates Crew did chase the sayd whale, and the sayd Parker first<br />
struckd the sayd Parker first<br />
struck +
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