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to sea againe, the Company of the ''Owners … to sea againe, the Company of the ''Owners Adventure'' having espied a whale<br />
the sayd Maundrie Gosling and William humfreys and Richard Parker and<br />
Mathew Bowlding all harponeeres went out in severall shallopps to chase<br />
and kill the sayd whale, and chased her for the space of sixe or eight howers<br />
but this deponent continueing a board the ''Owners Adventure'' and not<br />
goeing in any of the sayd shallopps to assiste the harponeeres as others<br />
of the sayd shipps Company did (every harponeere haveing to assiste him<br />
in his shallop fower rowers and a steeres man) cannot of his owne certaine<br />
knowledge relate every of the particular passages touching the chaseing the sayd<br />
whale, but did from on board observe that they chased her a long tyme and<br />
that her motion was very swifte, in soe much that the sayd shipp could not<br />
keepe way with her, and that shee being struck by the sayd Parker who<br />
fastned his warpe to her did towe both him and the sayd Maundries and<br />
Gostlings shallops soe fast (they having made fast their boates one to<br />
another to clogge and tyre her with) that at length the sayd Gostling (sic) and<br />
Maundrey and all the other shallops except the sayd Parker who contiinued<br />
fast to her Cast off their fasts which they had fastned to Parkers shallopp<br />
and left further pursueing the sayd whale and came aboard the Owners Ad=<br />
venture, and the Master askeing them why they gave over the pursuite<br />
seeing Parker continued fast to the whale, they the sayd Gosling, Maundrie<br />
and humphreys sayd that shee moved soe swifte that they could not keepe upp<br />
with her nor gett up with her neither to launce her nor or fasten more Irons in her, and thus GUTTER<br />
gave over the chase, and saith that not longe after the sayd Parker seeing none GUTTER<br />
of the other shallopps returne to his assistance, cut his warpe and lett the<br />
whale goe and came alsoe on board And further cannot depose/
To the 7th hee saith that when the sayd Gosling and Maundrie did in manner<br />
predeposed disobey the Commands of the sayd damerell in workeing the sayd<br />
shipp ''Owners Adventure'' further in towards shoare, and by such their speeches discourage<br />
the rest of the sayd shipps Company from doeing the same, the sayd shipp<br />
was in this deponents Judgment within sixe or seaven leagues of shoare<br />
and soe farr as this deponent could discover, and as hee verily beleeveth<br />
might as safely have gotten to shoare as made her way back to Sea<br />
And saith hee hath used the Greeneland ffishing many yeares, and hath<br />
made eleaven or twelve severall voyages thither as a Cooper, and<br />
hath thereby observed that some yeares the shipp hee hath gone in hath layn<br />
fast in Ice three weekes togeather, and farther from shoare by much than<br />
the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' were the tyme arelate when they putt back againe to Sea<br />
and yet have gained an oportunitie to make to shoare and have gott to shoare<br />
and made a good voyage, and some voyages thither this deponent hath made<br />
when as they have mett with noe Ice at all at Sea And further to this article<br />
hee cannot depose./
To the 8th and 9th hee saith the arlate John Maundrie his shipp did not at all keepe<br />
company with the ''Owners Adventure'', but only being neere her and the sayd<br />
Pybus Welch Golding and Childs shipps before they went all into the Ice, did<br />
hale them and salute them with a peece of Ordnance and soe departed, And<br />
saith the sayd other fower shipps (as hee hath heard some of their Companye<br />
saye) did after they lost the Company of the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound''<br />
when they came back out of the Ice to Sea, gett some of them into Greene harbour<br />
and the rest into PXXXXXX and made a considerable voyage (as they sayd) And XXX GUTTER<br />
[XXX GUTTER]d) And XXX GUTTER<br />
[XXX GUTTER] +
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