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called Hope Island and there caused about … called Hope Island and there caused about sixteene landsmen of his<br />
Company to flea and blubber sea horses (which the dutch had<br />
killed only to take the teeth of them) and imployed five shallopps crues<br />
of the ''Owners Adventure'' to fetch the bloober aboard, and by<br />
these meanes neglected the endeavouring to gaine a harbour,<br />
which hee beleeveth hee might have done if hee had endeavoured<br />
teh same, for that hee hath heard divers of the Companyes of the<br />
sayd Pybus Welch Golding and Childs shipps and some of the Masters<br />
them selves of the sayd shipps since their returne to London from the<br />
voyage in question saye, that after they lost the Company of the<br />
''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' that voyage, they gott into<br />
harbour, some of them into Greene harbour, and others into Port Nick,<br />
and there killed whales and made good voyages, And soe<br />
hee beleeveth might the sayd damerell have done if hee<br />
would have taken the advice of his Mate the sayd<br />
Maundry, and have gone Northwards and made for Greene<br />
harbour as hee advised him after his looseing the Company<br />
of the fower London shipps, and not have gone with the dutch to the<br />
Eastward as hee did: And saith hee knoweth of noe difference<br />
or angrie words which passed betwixt the arlate damerelll Gosling or<br />
Maundrie save those which as is predeposed happened while they<br />
were in the Ice as aforesayd, and those hee saith were occasioned by the meanes<br />
aforesayd And saith in his this deponents Judgment nothing at<br />
any tyme spoken or done by the sayd Goslin or Maundrey or either<br />
of them was any cause of the overthrowe of the voyage in question<br />
or that it proved soe insuccessefull as it did, but the same<br />
in his Judgment was occasioned by the sayd damerells goeing to<br />
the Eastward with the dutch and not endeavouring to gett<br />
to harbour as in probability hee might, as well as the other shipps<br />
did, and by missing his opportunitie as aforesayd when hee was soe neere Bell Point/ And further hee cannot depose/
To the 12th hee saith hee hath knowne the arlate Maundrie<br />
and Gosling for these eight or nyne yeares last past and hath knowne<br />
them in that tyme make severall voyages to Greeneland as officers<br />
of shipps, and hee this deponent hath gone three severall voyages (whereof the voyage in<br />
question was one) with the sayd Gosling, and saith both the sayd Maundry<br />
and Gosling ever since hee knew them, have bin accompted experi=<br />
enced sea men and men well skilled in the Greeneland ffishing<br />
and persons of good life and conversation and say as have<br />
constantl discharged their places faithfully and soe they both did<br />
in the voyage in question soe farr as this deponent could and did<br />
observe, And further to this article hee cannot depose/
Toher to this article hee cannot depose/
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