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To the 10th hee saith that the sayd fower … To the 10th hee saith that the sayd fower shipps and alsoe the ''Owners Adventure''<br />
and Pinke ''Greyhound'' being all gott cleere of the Ice to Sea, were afterwards<br />
parted by storme and foggy weather, soe that the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' left<br />
the Company of the other fower shipps, and having lost their Company did consort<br />
with some dutch shipps and the sayd Damerell did goe aboard them and finding noe fitt opportunity<br />
to gaine any harbour was forced to keepe sea whereby some of the ''Owners''<br />
''Adventure'' for want of refreshment on shore fell sick of the scurvie, and<br />
some of the ''Greyhounds'' Company dyed thereof And further<br />
to this article hee cannot depose/
To the 11th hee saith it was upon the eighteenth or nynteenth of June last<br />
that the ''Owners Adventure'' did worke out of the Ice as aforesayd, And saith<br />
that in his this deponents Judgment after the sayd shipp ''Owners Adventures''<br />
getting soe out of the Ice, there were severall better oportunities and likelyhoods<br />
of gaineing harbour than when the sayd shipp began to worke out of the<br />
Ice, and that the sayd Damerell did not attempte after such his workeing out,<br />
to worke into the Ice againe at any place, but kept at Sea, but saith hee knoweth<br />
not of any perswasion used by the sayd Maundry or Gosling or any of the<br />
sayd shipps Company to the sayd damerell to endeavour for any harbour<br />
after hee came out of thee Ice as aforesayd, And alsoe saith that hee knoweth<br />
of noe difference which happened betwixt the sayd damerell and Gosling or<br />
Maundry save the difference and ill language by him this deponent before<br />
mentioned, which difference did (in this deponents Judgment) arise by the<br />
sayd damerells wilfullnesse and rashnesse in desyring and Commanding<br />
his shipps company to worke the sayd shipp further into the Ice than<br />
other shipps would and did adventure, and by his provoaking the sayd<br />
Gosling with ill language as aforesayd, And hee verily beleeveth that<br />
nothing spoken or done by the sayd Gosling Maundrey or any<br />
other of the sayd shipps Company was preiudiciall or any cause of<br />
the overthrowe of the voyage arlate, but the same was lost by reason<br />
there was noe probable oportunitie offered for the sayd shipp to gett into<br />
harbour after shee came out of the Ice as aforesayd, (at least none<br />
soe probable as that the sayd damerell lost at the sayd shipps first<br />
coming within three or fower leagues of Bell Pointe) by his<br />
not then putting into the Ice but goeing aboard his owne shipp ''Owners''<br />
''Adventure'' till shee was come back to sea ward about tenn leagues<br />
further from Bell Point) And further to this article hee cannot depose<br />
for that the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' looseing the Company<br />
of the fower London shipps arlate at Sea in foggie and stormie weather<br />
never proceeded their Company againe soe that hee knoweth not of his<br />
owne knowledge, nor whether they did make voyage and kill whales in or neere harbour,<br />
but saith hee hath heard some of every of the sayd shipps Companyes after<br />
theird shipps Companyes after<br />
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