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Item, there must be caned from hence 5 pinnases, five men to 

 strike with harping irons, two cutters of Whales, 5 coopers, 

 & a purser or two 



A Note of Certaine Other Necessarie Things Belonging 



TO THE WhALEFISHING, RECEIVED OF MASTER W. BURROUGH. 



A sufficient number of pullies for tackle for the Whale. 

 A dozen of great baskets. 

 4 furnaces to melt the Whale in. 

 6 ladles of copper. 



A thousand of nailes to mend the pinnases. 

 500 great nails of spikes to make their house. 

 3 paire of bootes great and strong, for them that shall cut the 

 Whale. 

 8 calve skins to make aprons or barbecans. 



Hakluyt. 

 "The Principal Voyages of the English Nation," vol. II, p. 161. 



This same day the Salamander being under both her corses 

 and bonets, happened to strike a great Whale with her full 

 stemme, with such a blow that the ship stoode still, and stirred 

 neither forward nor backward. The Whale thereat made a 

 great and ugly noyse, and cast up his body and taile, and so went 

 under water, and within two dales after, there was found a 

 great Whale dead swimming above water, which wee supposed 

 was that which the Salamander strooke. 



Richard Hakluyt: 

 "The Enghsh Voyages," vol. V. p. 236. 



Now of the fight betwixt the Whale and his contraries; which 

 are the Sword-fish and the Thresher. The Sword-fish is not 

 great, but strongly made, and in the top of his chine (as a man 

 may say) betwixt the necke and shoulders, he hath a manner of 

 Sword in substance, like unto a bone of foure or five inches 

 broad, and above three foote long, full of prickles of either side, 

 it is but thinne, for the greatest that I have scene, hath not been 



