olG \VHALE-riSHERY. 



7 *. The coinmander by whom any thing is sa- 

 ved, shall calculate the value thereof, (deducting 

 that part required for paying the monthly wages of 

 the shipwrecked crew, as in the last article) and 

 comparing the said value or capital thus arising 

 with the market price of train-oil and whalebone, 

 he shall pay his officers and crew in like proportion, 

 «is they would have been entitled to, had the same 

 value of oil and fins been obtained in the fishery : — 

 In this estimate of the value of the goods saved, when 

 rendered into their corresponding proportion of oil 

 and fins, he shall reckon 50 barrels of blubber and 

 1600 lb. of whalebone as one fish. 



8. All goods thus saved from wrecks, shall, in 

 case of damage being received by the saving ves- 

 sel, be subject to average the same as all other pro- 

 perty in the ship f. 



9. Any one having killed a whale in the ice, but 

 who cannot conveniently take it on board, shall be 

 considered as the owner thereof, so long as any of 

 his crew remains along with it ; but whenever 

 it is deserted, though made fast to a piece of 



* In the French, this article is rendered totally different, and 

 to me is quite unintelligible ; in the Dutch it is also ambigu- 

 ous ; but I flatter myself, I have conveyed pretty nearly the 

 meaning of it. 



t The cargoes of Dutch ships probably became liable to 

 general averages, in consequence of their frecpiently usuig' 

 hii'ed ship.-; for the v/halc-lisherv. 



