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what they are accompted as touching their … what they are accompted as touching their abilities, hee this deponent<br />
having never been at Greeneland before the voyage in question and further<br />
hee cannot answer having never heard them speake anything to the<br />
effect Interrogate
To the 10th hee saith the sayd damerell did not loose the Company of<br />
the fower London shipps by such his workeing further into the Ice then they<br />
did, but did when hee was gotten out to sea recover their Company,<br />
and helpe the other shipps to save preserve the sayd Pybus his shipp<br />
which was ready to sinke by a hurt receaved by the Ice in her workeing<br />
out to sea, and after kept them Company to ducke Cove where they<br />
attempted to gaine harbour but could not, and thence came back in<br />
Company about five leagues from the Ice at darke Cove towards Greene<br />
land, and then foggie and stormie weather happening, the ''Owners Adventure''<br />
thereby lost the Company of the sayd fower shipps, and alsoe the Company<br />
of the ''Greyhounds'' but mett the ''Greyhound'' afterwards upon the Coast of<br />
Greenland in Company of a dutch shipp And saith the sayd<br />
damerell did severall tymes after his coming out of the Ice as aforesayd Command his Company of the ''Owners<br />
Adventure'' to attempt to gett in the Ice, and that the sayd Gosling<br />
did saye allwaise that there was noe getting in and that it was<br />
impossible to gett in that yeare and that hee beleeved noe shipps<br />
had gott into harbour in Greeneland that yeare or words to that effect,<br />
and saith that the sayd shipp ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhounds'' Companyes by<br />
reason they did not gett into harbour did suffer some extremities and<br />
and some of them fell sick of the scurvie and some of the Greyhounds Company dyed thereof, but not<br />
through any default of the sayd damerell soe farr as hee this deponent<br />
could observe, who was willing and ready to endeavour to gaine a<br />
harbour but was hindered as aforesayd by the sayd Goslings discourageing<br />
the Company, and saith the sayd damerell did in deede meete with<br />
some dutch shipps, and did goe on board of one of them, but saith<br />
hee beeleveth the voyage was noe way hindered th thereby for that<br />
but rather furthered, for that the sayd dutch men permitted the<br />
the sayd Damerells Company to take the bloober of about three score<br />
sea horses which they had killed upon a place called hope Island and hee this deponent helped to bloober their as alsoe divers others of the Companyes of the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' did˺<br />
and saith the sayd damerell gott out of the Ice about the latter end<br />
June but the certayne day hee remembereth not, and saith that after<br />
the comming out of the Ice the sayd Gosling Maundrie humfreys and other<br />
Harponeeres had difference with the Master and refused to obey his<br />
Command about helpeing to kill the whale aforesayd, and the sayd<br />
Gosling at such tymes as the Master could have put into the<br />
Ice did as aforesayd saye it was impossible to gett in and noe shipps<br />
could gett in that yeare, or to that effect and the sayd Gosling fell out<br />
with the sayd damerell about a sea horse tooth which damerell demanded<br />
of him and they called each other roague and knave and such other reproachfull<br />
termes And further saving his foregoin deposition hee cannot answer
To the last Interrogatorie hee saith saving his foregoeing<br />
depositionving his foregoeing<br />
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