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the other shipps, in towing the sayd shipp … the other shipps, in towing the sayd shipp further into the Ice and by such<br />
their labour gott the sayd shipp about four myles further into the Ice<br />
than the shipps of the sayd Goulding Pybus Welch and Childe went the<br />
premisses hee deposeth being present and one of the sayd shipps company<br />
and seeing and hearing the premisses soe sayd and done, and helpeing to towe the<br />
sayd shipp and further to these articles he cannot depose.
To the 7th and eighth articles of the sayd allegation hee saith and<br />
deposeth that of his this deponents sight and knowledge the arlate Maund[rey GUTTER]<br />
and Gosling during all the sayd tyme the sayd shippe ''Owners Adventure'' was<br />
workeing further into the Ice than where the other shipps aforesayd were, did<br />
take great paines and helpe to to towe in the sayd shipp whose soever they [might GUTTER]<br />
gett entrance for a shallops head, and did not at any tyme refuse to obey the<br />
Commands of the arlate Damerell in working her into the Ice nor encourageing<br />
any other of the sayd shipps company to disobey his commands or refuse<br />
to work thereabout soe farr as this deponent could or did heare or observe,<br />
and they and the Company having wrought the sayd ship further into the ice<br />
by about four myles the the other shipps aforesayd were, the said Damerell<br />
commanded the sayd shipp to bee fastned to the ice and there make a staye<br />
which being done attending to his Command, the sayd shipp layd still there<br />
about twelve howers and in the tyme she did soo laye the sayd Damerell<br />
sawe some fish spoute among the Ice neere where the sayd shipp laye and<br />
cryed out to the company a whale a whale and commanded the sayd<br />
Maundrey and Gosling and the rest of the harpooneres to manne their shallops and make<br />
after the sayd ffish which they did, and comming up with the sayd ffish<br />
found them to be certain ffish called Jubartas, which are a fish the<br />
English use not to fasten upon by reason of their swifte motion and for<br />
that they are of smale profitt and more dangerous to deale with than<br />
whales are; which the Company having discovered did not strike at<br />
the sayd fish but returned aboard the sayd shipp and acquainted the<br />
sayd Damerell what sorte of fish they were, whereupon the sayd Damerell<br />
commanded the sayd harponeeres and this deponent and others of the<br />
Company not to hawle up any of their shallops upon the ice nor<br />
hoyst them up upon the shipp sides for that (as hee sayd) he thought the<br />
other shipps (meaning the sayd shipps formerly in Company of the<br />
''Owners Adventure'' and from which she had gone further into the Ice)<br />
were working out of the Ice to make to Sea, and willed some of<br />
the Company to stepp up upon the shrowdes to see whether the heads of<br />
the sayd other shipps laye to seawards or noe, and thereupon this deponent<br />
and one John Engle went upon the shrowdes to take view and told the<br />
sayd Damerell that they discovered the sayd shipps head to be to<br />
sea ward, and their shallops a head toweing of them out, whereupon<br />
the sayd Damerell came him selfe up into the shrowdes to view whether<br />
that relation were true, and seeing the same to be truth<br />
sayd thus or to the like effect I see now<br />
theythe like effect I see now<br />
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