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mutual obligation, consequently for the benefit of the o>vn- 

 ers of each concern. The award is thus given on the part 

 of the Esk from the urgent nature of the circumstances, 

 and accepted on the part of the John, from the small pro- 

 bability there is of procuring such an increase to her cargo 

 elsewhere. 



Done on board the Esk, at six o''clock P. M. 

 (civil day,) of the 3d day of July 1816. 



o- J Thomas Jackson, 



*^ William ScoresbyJuti. 



„. J John Dunbar, ) ittt-, 

 ^'S^'^ Willm. Ward, j Witnesses. 



These agreements being fully urderstood and 

 signed, the John hauled alongside of the ice, 

 which had now opened near the Esk for the first 

 time since the accident, and took on board the whole 

 of our loose blubber, estimated at 78 butts, and 

 51 butts in 25 casks, together with about half of 

 our whalebone as agreed. In the mean time, we 

 hauled the Esk a little out of the way, and pro- 

 ceeded in stowing the casks in the 7fiain hold ; in 

 stowing and filling with water the casks of the after 

 hold : in caulking and battening the seams of the 

 ceiling, &c. &c. In the bilges of the ship, beneath 

 the fore-hatchway, we placed two empty casks on 

 their ends, with the upper heads taken out, and the 

 lower heads bored full of holes, for the purpose of 

 admitting the water which might accumulate in 

 the ship when heeling, and freeing it from any sub- 



