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place where whales resorte in the fore par … place where whales resorte in the fore part of the yeare and there her company haveing strucke<br />
some whales but lost them by their running under the Ice they being forced<br />
in such case to cut their warpes to preserve their shallopps and men from being<br />
towed under the Ice and drowned and splitt, did come from thence and [arrive GUTTER]<br />
and gett upon the Coast of Greeneland aboat the beginning of June, and [were GUTTER]<br />
then in this deponents Judgment about fower or five leagues off<br />
Bell Point, but which way the harbour then bore hee remembreth not, and<br />
saith the sayd damerell did there goe on board the shipp [of GUTTER]<br />
Mr Pybus but how long hee stayed there hee remembreth not but saith the sayd Pybus<br />
his shipp and the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' and the foresayd Welches Golding and Childs shipps sett<br />
sayle thence, and afterwards put into the Ice togeather, and farther saving his<br />
foregoeing deposition hee cannot answere saving hee saith hee knoweth not<br />
what the reason was which the sayd damerell did not attempt to goe into<br />
harbour when hee was soe neere Bell Point./
To the 4th hee cannot answere not knowung nor having heard of any<br />
such order or direction as is Interrogate./
To the 5th 6th 7th and 8th hee saith the sayd damerell after hee came from on board the sayd Pybus<br />
his shipp did keepe company with the foresayd fower London shipps untill such tyme<br />
as they all wrought into the Ice togeather in manner predeposed, which was in the moneth<br />
of June last, but upon what day hee remembreth not for that hee kept noe Journal<br />
of the dayes, and having wrought in divers myles in the space of tenn or twelve<br />
howers the ''Owners Adventure'' ''Greyhound'' and Goldings and Welches shipps made<br />
fast togeather in manner predeposed, and lay soe about sixteene howers<br />
in which tyme the sayd damerell went on board the sayd Gouldings [?shipp GUTTER]<br />
but what discourse the sayd damerell Goulding and Welch had hee knoweth not<br />
but saith after hee had bin on board with them some tyme hee the sayd damerell<br />
whilst hee was on board the sayd Goldings shipp did call out to his Company<br />
of the ''Owners Adventure'' and bidd them wake loose theri shipp, and prepare to worke her further in to shoare, and<br />
then came on board the ''Owners Adventure'' and Commanded her Company to make<br />
ready their shallopps and to worke her further in towards harbour or to that effect<br />
and thereupon the sayd Gosling and Maundry spake the words predeposed or or<br />
other words to that effect, yet did afterwards both of them helpe to worke in fower or five<br />
myles further towards shoare, and then the sayd damerell still<br />
continueing his Command to worke further in, the sayd Maundrie thereupon spake<br />
the other words predeposed, whereat the Company were soe discouraged that they<br />
endeavoured to worke noe further in, but soone after turned her about and<br />
wrought her out to sea againe, And further saving his foregoeing deposition<br />
hee cannot depose saving hee saith that the other fower shipps predeposed of did<br />
begin to worke out to Sea before the ''Owners Adventure'' began to worke to sea<br />
and did all fower of them worke out to sea, and were all in Company of the ''Owners''<br />
''Adventure'' at Sea afterwards, till such tyme as by foggie and stormie weather they lost<br />
her company./
To the 9th Interrogatorie hee saith hee knoweth the arlate Pybus Welch Child<br />
and Golding and hath knowne them goe Masters of shipps for severall fishing voyages<br />
to Greeneland and beleeveth them to bee able and experienced sea men and well<br />
versed in the Greeneland ffishing And further to this Interrogatorie hee<br />
cannot answere./
To the 10th hee saith the sayd damerell of his this deponents knowledge did not<br />
by his workeing soe farr into the Ice as hee did, loose the Company of the foresayd<br />
fower London shipps, for that hee knoweth hee was in Company with them after hee<br />
gott out to Sea againe, and the sayd Pybus his shipp having receaved hurt in<br />
her bowe by Ice, and proveing thereby very leakie in soe much that she was in [?very GUTTER]<br />
great danger of sinkeing (and (as her company sayd) had taken nyne foote water in<br />
hold, the sayd damerell with his Companye of the ''Owners Adventure''<br />
did assiste the other three London shipps in cleering the sayd Pybus his shipp of the<br />
saydyd Pybus his shipp of the<br />
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