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sayd water receaved, and sent his the sayd … sayd water receaved, and sent his the sayd damerells Carpenter and Carpenters<br />
mate aboard her to helpe to stopp her leake, and continued in their Company<br />
till hee was parted from them as aforesayd by foggie and stormie weather<br />
after which having lost their company hee saith the sayd damerell did stand<br />
off at Sea and some tymes stands in againe towards the Ice<br />
with intent as hee beleeveth to find an oportunitie to gett into harbour, and<br />
in such his passage to and fro did meete with some dutch shipps and some of the ''Owners Adventures'' company did after some<br />
questions of them whether they sawe any of the<br />
English ffleete or not, and what store of ffish they sawe upon the Coast, and<br />
what store of Ice there was to the Eastwards, and whether there were any hopes<br />
to gett into harbour at ducks Cove and the like questions, whereto they answered<br />
in broken English, and sayd they sawe none of the English ffleete, and that<br />
the Coast was full of Ice toward ducke Cove and noe hope of getting in there or<br />
to that effect, and saith that the sayd damerell being by the<br />
Master of one of the dutch vessells envited to come on board him, the sayd<br />
damerell did (in his owne shallopp) goe on board the dutch vessell, and staye<br />
there some few howers, and then came aboard his owne shipp againe, and saith<br />
hee knoweth not of any oportunitie which was offered to gett into harbour<br />
after the ''Owners Adventure'' came out of the Ice to Sea as aforesayd, and<br />
saith what hardship and extremity the company of the ''Owners Adventure'' suffered, was<br />
by reason they could not gett to harbour, and for want of<br />
fresh victualls and other refreshments which they might have had on shoare if<br />
they could have gotten to a harbour, and not by the sayd damerells goeing<br />
on board the sayd dutch shipp or by any default of the sayd<br />
damerell as hee beleeveth, And further saving his foregoeing deposition<br />
he cannot answere, saving hee saith hee knoweth of noe difference<br />
that after the sayd shipp ''Owners Adventure'' came out of the Ice to<br />
Sea and had left the Company of the other fower English shipps they mett with<br />
a ffleming who laye at Anchor neere hope Island, which ffleming gave<br />
the sayd damerell leave to take the blubber of some sea horses which the<br />
ffleming had killed and taken the teeth of, and the sayd damerell being<br />
desyrous as much as might bee to advance the benefit voyage to the<br />
benefitt of the Imployers, in regards hee could not gaine a harbour, did<br />
accept of the sayd fflemings offer, and<br />
went him selfe on shoare with the most of his Company both<br />
land and sea men and sett the land men to worke to cut the blubber and the<br />
seamen to bring it aboard, and having stayed some tyme with them, came<br />
againe aboard his owne shipp ''Owners Adventure'' and left the Company at<br />
worke, and saith that that some few dayes after the Company had<br />
belonging to the sayd shipp had some difference betweene decks about<br />
two teeth of a sea horse which they had found upon the shoare<br />
sayd Island, and the master hearing them, called them up<br />
to him, and told them that hee heard they had gott some teeth a shoare, and<br />
required them to deliver them to him, and take them they must not thinke to carry<br />
any more teeth home with them than they had in their heades, and bid them fetch the<br />
tooth to him, whereupon one of them (whose name was Rice) went and fetched one<br />
tooth to him and gave it to the Master, and the Master demanding of the other man (whose name was<br />
Nash) where the other tooth was, the sayd Nash sayd hee had it not, and the master being<br />
importunate to know what was become of it, the sayd Nash told him that hee ought<br />
thesh told him that hee ought<br />
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