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not beleeving it to be true for that hee h … not beleeving it to be true for that hee heard the sayd Gosling since his returne from<br />
the voyage in question saye that if hee had not bin designed<br />
for Bell Sound hee would have wrought further into the Ice<br />
as this deponent did and that if hee had bin soe farr in as this<br />
deponent was, hee would not have doubted to (if hee could not<br />
than gott into Bell Sound) to have gott into Greene harbour for<br />
that (as hee sayd) the very Current or indraught would have<br />
carried a shipp into Greene habour./
To the 10th hee saith that after this deponent with the ''Owners Ad=''<br />
''venture'' and ''Greyhound'' was gott to sea againe and in Company<br />
of the aforesayd fowrer London shipps, hee was parted from their<br />
company by the extraordinary foggie weather, and stresse of<br />
winde, and after hee had lost their company and the stormie weather<br />
was over, this deponent came in with the land to southward of<br />
Bell Point and to the edge of the Ice, and caused his Company<br />
to worke to worke her in about three or foure myles, and having<br />
soe done the ice beginning to prove thick this deponent went up in<br />
the shrowdesto the top mast head to discover what probability hee<br />
could see of getting to harbour and came downe againe and the sayd Maundrie and Gosling<br />
came up of afterwards went up to take view alsoe and called to this<br />
deponent to come up againe and told this deponent that the Ice was<br />
soe thick that it was impossible to gett into harbour and that<br />
that stormie weather had noe whit removed it but that it laye<br />
like a wall towards shoare and that they would bee hanged if any<br />
shipps did gett into Greeneland that yeare and these premisses were<br />
soe spoken and done about the tenth day of July 1656 whereupon this<br />
deponent seeing their unwillingnesse to worke to harbour and<br />
with all seeing the Ice thick towards shoare no likelyhood to<br />
gett in, did put out to sea againe, and the killed a whale<br />
at sea on the backside of the Ice and afterwards videlicet about the<br />
eighteenth or 19th of the sayd month of July 1656 this deponent<br />
seeing noe hopes to get into any harbour to the Southward or North<br />
ward, did goe about Point Lookeout, and sayled Eastwards<br />
hopeing to gaine ducks Cove, which hee knew at that tyme of the yeare used<br />
to bee a good harbour for fishing if hee could gett in, but found<br />
it soe full of Ice that hee could not gett in there neither, in which<br />
East sea this deponent mett with two dutch shipps and being<br />
envited aboard by the Master of one of them who sent his shallopp<br />
for him this deponent, hee returned answere that hee would come<br />
on board him in his this deponents owne shallopp which accordingly<br />
hee did the dutch lyeing soe neere that this deponent made [XXX GUTTER]<br />
a warpe or roape from his owne shipp to the<br />
dutch shipp during the tyme hee stayed aboard the dutch shipp<br />
which was about two or three howers and not above, and did not<br />
any way thereby hurt or hinder his voyage, in the least, it being<br />
then thick foggie weather and they lyeing within three or foweer myles<br />
of the Ice and saith the Company of the ''Owners Adventure''<br />
suffered ''Owners Adventure''<br />
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