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iiislied with the requisite apparatus for the fishery. 

 About the 12th of June they killed a small whale, 

 which yielded twelve tons of oil, being, according to 

 Captain Edge, the first oil ever made in Greenland. 

 Whilst they were busily engaged killing sea-horses 

 in Foul Sound, and preparing the oil, a quan- 

 tity of ice set in, whereby the ship vras driven on 

 shore and wrecked. The men being now totally 

 destitute, the Elizabeth having parted company be- 

 fore this accident, took to their boats on the 15th of 

 July, and proceeded along shore thirty or forty 

 leagues to the southward. Two boats parted com- 

 pany off Horn Sound, and shortly afterwards fell 

 in with a Hull ship, which happened to be on the 

 coast, and gave the master intelligence, that they 

 had left 1500/. value of goods in Foul Sound. 

 He therefore proceeded to the place to get the goods 

 belonging to the company, as well as to kill some 

 morses for himself. INIeanwhile, Captain Edge, 

 with two other shallops, had put offshore in lat. 77^^° 

 for Cherry Island, and landed there with a N. W. 

 storm on the 29th of July, after being fourteen days 

 at sea. Here, they were so fortunate as to find the 

 Elizabeth, just on the point of weighing anchor for 

 England ; which ship having made a bad voyage. 

 Edge ordered her back to Foul Sound, to take 

 on board the goods left there. They left Cherry 

 Island on the 1st of Au2:ust, and arrived in Foul 

 Sound on the 14th, where they found the Hull ship 



