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swifter they were cast behinde and rowed u … swifter they were cast behinde and rowed up and downe a long tyme<br />
before they could recover to fasten to the boates againe from whense<br />
they cast off, and haveing recovered them, made fast to them againe, but<br />
the whale towed soe swiftly being pricked in her hinder parts and<br />
toward the boates soe farr into a growne sea, (the sea being then<br />
somewhat rough by reason of a fresh gale of winde that blew)<br />
the boates were like to be cast away thereby, whereupon after they<br />
had thus pursued the sayd whale for some certayne howers (but how many<br />
(hee remembreth not) the sayd Maundrie seeing noe hope of killing<br />
of her threw off his fast, and left the further pursuit of her, and the<br />
sayd humfreys and Parker or some of their boates Crewes seeing<br />
likewise noe hopes of killing her by reason of her swift motion cut<br />
their warpes from the whale and lett her goe, but who gave them order<br />
soe to doe hee knoweth not and further hee cannot depose saving hee<br />
saith on his this deponents Judgment all the sayd harponeers and their Crewes did their best endeavour to have<br />
killed the sayd whale And further./
To the 14th hee saith the arlate Reynolds the Cooper Thomas Chauntrie<br />
Edward Ashmore [BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] Kirton and Maurice fford were persons<br />
persons to be imployed on land in boyleing and chopping of whales and other<br />
worke after they were catched, and as hee beleeveth have noe skill<br />
in sayling a shipp at sea or to know when it is fitt to carrie her<br />
in or out of a harbour And further to this article hee cannot depose
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/
To the Interrogatories./ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee cometh to testifie at request only<br />
of Gosling and hath receaved nothing nor is promised nor expecteth any<br />
thing for his testimony And otherwise negatively./
To the second hee saith hee knoweth all the parties litigant and favoureth<br />
them all alike and desyreth right may prevaile in this cause And<br />
to the rest of the Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively./
To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith that hee hath not as yet commensed any action<br />
against the Interrogate Batson Beane or Goldern or any of them<br />
for his wages in this voyage but if hee cannot bee by fayere meanes<br />
payd the same hee must and will take the best course by leave hee can<br />
to recover the same of them And saith as before that hee was hyred<br />
by damerell to goe halfe steeresman of a shallop for one of the<br />
harponeeres, and was on board the shipp ''Owners Adventure'' only as a Common man having<br />
noe other office but that above named,/
To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot<br />
answere more particularly saving hee saith hee heard the Interrogate<br />
Maundrie severall tymes both when the shipp ''Owners Adventure''<br />
was in the Ice beyond the other fower London shipps and at other<br />
tymes after shee came out to sea and had lost their company at<br />
when the sayd damerell did endeavour to put into the Ice againe<br />
saye, that there was noe possibility of getting into harbour the<br />
Ice was soe thick./
Tour the<br />
Ice was soe thick./
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