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a harbour nor knoweth any cause why hee gott not to harbour after
his coming out of the Ice as aforesayd but the sxtreame thicknesse of
the Ice towards shoare, for that hee knoweth the sayd damerell did severall
tymes attempt to put into the Ice againe after her comming out of the Ice
as aforesayd but by reason of the thicknesse of the Ice could not meete with
a fitt oportunities to get in And further saving his foregoeing
deposition hee cannot depose/

To the 11th hee saith hee knoweth not what day of June 1656 the sayd
shipp the Owners Adventure and Greyhound did worke out of the Ice
as aforesayd nor when the London shipps arlate gott into harbour,
And saith hee knoweth not of any falling out betwixt the sayd Gosling
and damerell after the words which passed betwixt them at such tyme
as the sayd damerell gave Command to worke the Owners Adventure
further into the Ice then the other fower London shipps went, saving
that after the Owners Adventure came out to sea and had lost the
Company of the sayd ffower shipps there was a falling out betwixt
the sayd Gosling and damerell about a sea horse tooth which
damerell demanded of the sayd Gosling and further hee
cannot depose not knowing nor being able to depose by whose
default the voyage in question was made soe insuccessfull as
it was, otherwise then that in his Judgment and as hee beleeveth the sayd damerell did when
the shipp was soe neere Bell Point misse a fayer oportunities
of getting into harbour then afterwards could bee obteyned during
the whole voyage by not makeing fast to the Ice there but keeping on
board the sayd Pybus his shipp and sayling in her and out to sea againe.

To the 12th hee saith hee never knew Maundry or Gosling before the
voyage in question and saith soe farr as hee could or did observe by them
they behaved them selves as able sea men And beleeveth for that hee
sawe the sayd Maundry and Gosling as harponeeres helpe to kill two
whales the voyage in question that they are well experienced in the
whale fishing And further saving his foregoeing deposition hee
cannot depose. saving hee saith hee beleeveth them to bee persons of
good life and Conversation and never observed any thing to the contrary
by them since hee knew them./

To the 13th hee saith that hee this deponent was steeresman of the arlate
Maundrie his shallop while hee and the sayd Gosling and other
harponeeres were in pursuite of the whale in this article
mentioned and saith hee thereby knoweth that one Richard Parker
a harponeere and Boatswaine of the Owners Adventure fastned his
Iron first to the sayd whale and after him one humfreys fastned
a second Iron in her and Maundrie and Gosling and Bowling
harponeeres alsoe not being able to gett neere her to fasten more
Irons in her they all made fast to the sterne end of an other to tyre
the whale with towing them, and when the whale any thing
slacked her motion, the sayd Maundrie and Gosling and Bowling cast off their
fasts from the boates who were fast to the whale and rowed up and
endeavoured to fasten more irons in her but shee moveing swifter
they