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courage failed them. Rather than again brave the 

 terrors whieli they had but recently escaped, they 

 determined to sacrifice the whale. They accord- 

 ingly returned to tlie ship they had left, cast their 

 fish adrift, which, being picked up by the Hen- 

 rietta's crew, was added to her cargo, and, agreeable 

 to the usage of the fishery, became her prize. The 

 condition was, that the Hercules's men should, if 

 practicable, be put on board of their own vessel. 



The fish being flensed, the Henrietta stretched 

 to the northward about 30 miles, and fell in with 

 a ship, which proved to be the Dundee, command- 

 ed by my Father. From him they received in- 

 formation of the situation of the Hercules, and pro- 

 ceeded according to his directions, firing guns at 

 intervals, as the fog had returned, until at length 

 they were rejoiced by the sound of a gun in answer. 

 By repeating their signals, they soon afterwards 

 joined the ship of which they were in search, and 

 the men and boats were restored to the Hercules ; 

 but the fish, according to agreement and general 

 usage, was detained. 



Doats overtaken hij Storms, and prevented 

 from joining their S/rips*. — On the commencement 



* Though the circumstance immediately following has no re- 

 I'erence to the fishery, excepting in so far as the circumstance 

 opcurred in Greenland, it is inserted here, on account of the 

 ijiterest connected with the ad\cnture. 



