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To the 12th hee saith hee hath known the a … To the 12th hee saith hee hath known the arlate Gosling and Maundry<br />
for these 3 yeares last past during which tyme they have used the<br />
ffishing trade at Greenland (and as hee hath heard, for many yeares<br />
before that) and saith they are of his knowledge honest sober men and<br />
of good conversation and soe Accompted, and have gone officers and<br />
Mariners severall voyages thither and discharged their places faithfully<br />
hee having gone severall voyages with them thither before the voyage in<br />
question And further hee cannot depose/
To the 13th hee saith that if the foresayd damerell<br />
and Company of the ''Owners Adventure'' having espied the whales arlate<br />
at sea the sayd damerell the shallopps belonging to the sayd shipp to bee<br />
manned to chase her, and accordingly the harponeeres which were<br />
Gosling, Maundrie, Humfreys, Parker, Bowling and Kirke did<br />
every of them in severall shallopps with five men beside them<br />
selves in every shallopp to assiste them (whereof this deponent was<br />
one belonging to Maundries Shallopp) give chase to the sayd ˹whale˺ for<br />
about an hower and a halfes tyme and seeing her soe swifte that<br />
they could not come neere her, all the shallopps and their Companys<br />
except the sayd Parkers) went aboard and gave over the chase, and the<br />
sayd Parker staying behinde, the fish altering her course<br />
came soe neere him that hee gott the oportunnitie to fasten to her<br />
and having soe done made a waste to give notice that hee was<br />
fast, whereupon the sayd Maundry Gosling and the rest of the harponeeres<br />
and their Companyes (whereof as aforesayd this deponent was one) manned<br />
their shallopps againe and the sayd Humfrey after about halfe an<br />
houres chase or somewhat lesse gott soe neere as that hee alsoe<br />
fastened to her and the rest of the harponeeres by reason of her swifte motion not<br />
after shee felt her selfe pricked not being able to keepe<br />
way with her were forced to laye hold on the sayd Humfreys<br />
boate and make fast thereto untill any oportunitie would offer to<br />
gett more Irons into her and soe hunge there to tyre her out, but<br />
the whale still moved soe swiftly and towed them<br />
up and downe about eight or tenn howers, and at length towed<br />
them and their boates soe farr into a growne sea that most of the<br />
boates were ready to be overwhelmed and their Companies<br />
in of great danger of being drowned,<br />
whereupon there being noe hopes of killing her, shee still<br />
running soe swift that the shipp would hardly keepe way with her<br />
boates Company and all the rest of the harponeeres and their<br />
Companies (except the sayd Parker and humfreys and their Companies<br />
who were fast to the whale) cast off their fasts which they<br />
had made to Humfreys shallopp and came on board, and the<br />
sayd humfrey and Parker continueing their hold and the<br />
shipp comming somwhat neere the whale, the sayd Humfrey and<br />
Parker called to Damerell and asked him whether they should<br />
cutt loose, for it was impossible to kill her, whereto the sayd Damerell<br />
saydwhereto the sayd Damerell<br />
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