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never gett out againe, and therefore the d … never gett out againe, and therefore the devell take him that layes<br />
his hands to helpe to worke in, but to worke out to sea againe<br />
hee sayd hee and the Company were willing for that the rest of the shipps meaning<br />
the sayd Goldings, Welches and Pybus and Childs shipps which went the<br />
day before in this Company did not worke nor had wrought in soe<br />
farr as they but were working out againe to Sea, and<br />
therefore they would worke out alsoe and did actually refuse to worke in any further towards shoare whereupon the whole Company of<br />
the sayd shipp being (as appeared by them) willinge to worke out to<br />
Sea again than to worke further towards shoare and not helping<br />
and assisting to worke towards the shoare though this deponent commanded them soe to doe this deponent was con=<br />
streyned (by such the sayd Gosling and Maundrey their mutinous<br />
perswasions and seduceing the Company from their obedience to<br />
this deponents Commands of workeing in towards the shoare) to consent<br />
and give Commande to worke the sayd shipps ''Owners Adventure'' and<br />
''Greyhound'' out of the Ice to Sea againe and loose his oportunitie of<br />
gaineing the shoare, which hee is well assured and which verily beleeveth<br />
and is perswaded in his conscience, might with some labour and<br />
trouble have bin with safety gained and with as much safety as to worke out to sea againe if the sayd Gosling and Maundrey<br />
had not soe discouraged and by their mutinous speeches perswaded the<br />
sayd shipps Company to not to attempt the same, And if the sayd<br />
shipps Company would have obeyed this deponents Commands and<br />
wrought the sayd shipps to Shoare (as they might well have done)<br />
this deponent is fully convinced in conscience and verily beleeveth<br />
that the voyage in question would have proved very successful<br />
and advantagious to the Merchant imployers of the sayd shipps<br />
whereas by the meanes aforesayd the sayd voyage was almost [XXX GUTTER]<br />
overthrowne, and proved very disadvantagious to the Imployers, there<br />
being only two whales killed after the sayd shipps gott to sea againe<br />
which for that they could not gett on shoare to boyle then they were<br />
faine to being home in bloober togeather with the blubber of<br />
about twenty butts of blubber of sea horses all which when it was<br />
whales boyled at Blackwell after the returne home of the sayd shipps<br />
from the sayd voyage accounted to eighteene Tonnes of oyle or<br />
thereabouts And saith that after the sayd two shipps ''Owners Adventure''<br />
and ''Greyhound'' had worked them selves out of the Ice and were at sea<br />
againe (beside the two whales killed as aforesayd) the arlate<br />
humfreys and one Richard Parker Boatswaine of the Owners Adventure<br />
being both of these alsoe harpooneres did strike a whale<br />
and fastned their warpes to her, and the sayd Manndry and Gosling<br />
and Mathew Bowling and one Richard Kerke helpe to towe at the sterne of the sayd hum=<br />
freys and Parkers shallops whose warpes were fastned to her, and<br />
after they had towed about eight or tenne howers the sayd Gosling<br />
Maundrey and their boates crues gave over toweing and came on board the ''Owners<br />
Adventure'' leaving leaving the sayd humfreys and Parker still fast to<br />
the sayd whale and endeavouring still to hold her and the other two shallops XXXing up and downe after the whale XXXXX and this deponent<br />
asking the sayd Maundrye and Gosling why they came away in regards<br />
they sawe that the sayd Parker and humfrey still continued their hold<br />
and the other two boates they answered and sayd they would towe her noe more for if<br />
theirtowe her noe more for if<br />
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