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voyages, performed afterwards, and written by 

 Jonas Poole himself. 



The same company sent out the following year a 

 laro-e ship of 150 tons, of which Stephen Bennet 

 was master, and Thomas Edge factor, " for the 

 killing of the whale ;" and, as this appears to have 

 been the first voyage undertaken expressly for that 

 purpose, it is stated, that " they have bin at the 

 charge of procuring of sixe men of Saint John de 

 Luz accustomed to that function." Jonas Poole 

 accompanied this ship as master of the Elizabeth, 

 with two others, which were to proceed, one to St. 

 Nicholas or Archangel, the other to Nova Zembla. 

 While the ships were engaged in fishing, Poole 

 stood to the northward as high as 80°, near Spitz- 

 bero^en, then crossed to the east coast of Greenland, 

 near Sandersons Hold with Hope, and says he ran 

 about fortv lea2:ues to the westward of the eastern- 

 most part of the land as it was then laid down in his 

 charts ; he next stood across to Cherry island, and 

 again proceeded to Spitzbergen, where he found 

 part of the crew of the large ship on shore, she 

 having been lost in the ice ; they atferwards were 

 taken on board a vessel from Hull, which carried 

 them home. 



The next year, 1612, the same company of mer- 

 chants sent out two ships, the JVhale and the Sea- 

 horse, under Jonas Poole. On their arrival at 

 Cherry Island they found a ship from Holland, in 

 which one Alan Salowes, an Englishman, was 



