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VOYAGES OF ]60S tO 



russes, they returned to Cola ; and, departing for 

 England, arrived in the Thames the 15th of Octo- 

 ber, 1604. 



The next year Mr. Weldex, the owner of the 

 ship, with Bennet, as master, made another voyage 

 to Cherry Island ; and being now more expert in 

 killing the morses, they not only took their teeth 

 but boiled their blubber into oil. They also dis- 

 covered a mine of lead-ore, and brought away 

 about thirty pounds of it in weight. 



Again, in l606, Bennet proceeded in the same 

 ship, accompanied by a pinnace of twenty tons. 

 They arrived oif the island on the 3d of July, but 

 the ice not having yet broken up from the shores, 

 the morses had not landed. On the 13th the ice 

 beo-an to go away and the morses to land. A 

 party, properly equipped, went on shore; and so 

 well had they improved in the work of destruc- 

 tion, that " before six hours were ended wee had 

 slayne about seven or eight hundred beasts." By 

 the 26th they had taken on board twenty-two tons 

 of oil and three hogsheads of teeth, besides which 

 they slew two large bears. They then left the 

 island on the 29th of July, and on the 15th of 

 Auo-ust arrived in the Thames. 



In l608 Mr. Welden again proceeded in his 

 ship to Lapland and Cherry Island, at the latter of 

 which he arrived on the 18th of June, slew two 

 bears on shore, and perceived great store of sea 

 morses. On the 21st and 22d the weather is^ 



