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June for divers dayes next following, and … June for divers dayes next following, and while they were soe in<br />
Company they did againe attempte to put into the Ice toward harbour<br />
and entered a little way in, but the weather proving on a suddaine<br />
extraordinary thick and a hard gale of winde blowing, they were<br />
all forced out to sea againe, and the weather still continuing<br />
thick and the storme and winde encreaseing, the sayd damerell with<br />
his shipps thereby lost the company of the other fower London shipps<br />
and was driven to sea about 46 leagues from shoare, and never<br />
recovered Company of the sayd English shipps during the voyage in<br />
question And saith the sayd damerell having lost their Company<br />
did afterwards associate and keepe company with two fflemish<br />
shipps and this deponent heard him the sayd damerell hee being with him in the great Cabbin aboard of the sayd fflemings make consort=<br />
shipp with the sayd fflemings to show them the way to Point Negro<br />
being a point to the Eastward beyond ducks Cove where<br />
hee supposed great store of fish to bee, which the sayd fflemings<br />
did in the English tongue thanke him for, and gave him a cheese, and<br />
the sayd damerell did accordingly goe to the Eastward with the sayd<br />
fflemings but could not make any harbour there, there<br />
being alsoe very great quantities of Ice, soe that the sayd damerell<br />
not getting to harbour but keeping at sea some of his Company of the ''Owners Adventure'' for want of<br />
refreshment on shoare fall sick of the Scurvie, And saith hee hath<br />
heard severall of the Companyes of the sayd fower London shipps<br />
since their returne from the voyage in question saye, that (after<br />
they lost the Company of the ''Owners Adventure'' and ''Greyhound'' at<br />
sea as aforesayd) they did about the thirteenth of July last gett<br />
into harbour and kill whales and make a good voyage And<br />
soe (as hee this deponent verily beleeveth and is perswaded in<br />
his conscience) might the sayd damerell have done if hee<br />
had not missed his oportunite of getting into harbour by<br />
goeing Eastward with the fflemings, And hee saith that after the<br />
17th day of June last there was not varianse betwixt<br />
the sayd damerell and his Mates or any other of his Command, and her<br />
Company touching the sayd voyage but they were all obedient to his Command, and hee<br />
might and did goe with the sayd shipp whether hee pleased, and<br />
this deponent beleeveth that nothing acted or sayd by the sayd Gosling or Maundry<br />
was any lett or hinderanse for the voyage in question they<br />
yeilding actuall obedience to his Commands notwithstanding<br />
the differense and ill language aforesayd, but hee this deponent is<br />
verily persuaded in his conscience that the losse of the voyage in<br />
question was by the default of the sayd damerell in goeing<br />
to the Eastward as aforesayd, and by his chaseing all fish that hee sawe<br />
spowte, and thereby fo loosing his oportunities by often following<br />
them farr from the edge of the Ice and not keeping neere the Ice<br />
to see when an oportunitie offered to gett in towards shoare, And<br />
further hee cannot depose./nd<br />
further hee cannot depose./ +
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