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To the 13th article of the sayd allegation … To the 13th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee<br />
well knoweth for that hee was one of the Boates Crue to<br />
Richard Parker the Boatswaine of the ''Owners Adventure'' and<br />
a harpooneere that the sayd Parker and Maundrie and Gosling and<br />
humfrie and one Bowling and one Kirke all harponeeres, with their<br />
Crues, did in severall shallopps pursue the whale in this article<br />
mentioned, and the sayd Parker first fastned his harpeing Iron in<br />
her, and a while after the sayd humfryes fastned an other Iron<br />
in her, and the rest of the harponeeres by reason of her swifte motion<br />
after shee was pricked not being able to gett soe neere as to<br />
strike any more Irons into her, did make fast their shallopps<br />
to the stearnes of the sayd humfreys and Parkers shallopps,<br />
thereby to tyre the whale with toweing them, and they haveing<br />
bin towed by her eight or tenn howers, she ranne<br />
soe farr into a growne sea that the boates or shallopps tooke in much<br />
water in striveing to continue fast one to the other and to<br />
the whale, and at length the whale turneing shorte did with<br />
swifte motion runne the sayd humfreys shallop stemlings<br />
towards the sayd Parkers shallop, whereupon the sayd humfreys<br />
for preserving his shallopp and crue and to prevent endangereing Parkers shallopp alsoe was forced to cut his<br />
warpe from his Iron and leave his Iron sticking in the whale, whereupon the sayd<br />
humfreys Maundry Gosling and all the other harponeeres<br />
seeing the swifte motion of the whale, and that the sea was<br />
soe rough and growne, gave over any further pursuite of<br />
the sayd whale and went with their shallopps aboard the<br />
''Owners Adventure'' and left the sayd Parker and his Crew (whereof<br />
this deponent was one) fast to the whale, and the sayd Parker<br />
and his crue continued soe fast for some tyme after the other<br />
harponeeres and their Crues were gone aboard as aforesayd,<br />
and then the whale turneing and ?runneung neere the<br />
sayd shipp the sayd Parker called to the sayd damerell the<br />
Master and asked him what hee should doe, whereupon the<br />
sayd damerell called from on board the sayd shipp to the sayd<br />
Parker and his Crue and bidd the sayd Parker cutt<br />
his warpe and come aboard and this deponent<br />
well knoweth that after the sayd Parker and his Company came<br />
on board, hee gave them a bottle of brandiewyne and sayd<br />
they had done as much as could bee done by men concerning<br />
the killing of that whale or words to that effect And saith that<br />
in that effect And saith that<br />
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