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above a finger thicke. The Thresher is a greater fish, whose 

 taile is very broad and thicke, and very weighty. The fight 

 in this manner; the Swordfish placeth himself e under the belly 

 of the Whale, and the Thresher upon the Ryme of the water, 

 and with his tayle thresheth upon the head of the Whale, till he 

 force him to give way, which the Sword-fish perceiving, re- 

 ceiveth him upon his sword, and wounding him in the belly 

 forceth him to mount up again: (besides that, he cannot abide 

 long under water, but most of force rise up to breath) and v/hen 

 in such manner they torment him, that the fight is somxetimes 

 heard above three leagues distance, and I dare affirme, that I 

 have heard the blowes of the Thresher two leagues off, as the re- 

 port of a peece of Ordnance, the Whales roaring being heard 

 much farther. It also happeneth sundry times, that a great 

 part of the water of the Sea round about them, with the bloud of 

 the Whale changeth his colour. The best remedy the whale 

 hath in this extremitie to helpe himselfe is to get him to land, 

 which hee procureth as soon as he discovereth his adversaries, 

 and getting the shore, there can fight but one with him, and for 

 either of them hand to hand he is too good. 



Amber-greece is thought by some to breed in the Whales 

 belly by eating of a certaine hearb, but that which carrieth 

 likeliest probabilitie is, that it is a liquor which issueth out of 

 certain Fountaines in sundry Seas, and being of a light and thick 

 substance, participating of the Ayre, suddenly becometh hard, 

 as the yellow Amber, of which they make Beades, which is also 

 a liquor of a Fountaine in the Germaine Sea: in the bottom it is 

 soft and white, and partaking of the Ayre becommeth hard and 

 stonie: Also the Corrall in the Sea is soft, but commeth into the 

 Ayre, becometh a stone. Those who are of this opinion, thinke 

 the reason (why the Amber-greece is sometimes found in the 

 Whale) to be for that hee swalloweth it, as other things, which 

 he findeth swimming upon the water, and not able to digest it, 

 it remaineth with him till his death. 



Sir Richard Hawkins: 



*Turchas His Pilgrimes," Maclehose edition, 



A. D, 159S Glasgow, 1905. Vol. VII, p. 85. 



