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other time forty-five j but they lost most of them in consequence 

 of bad weather. " In the yeere 1610. the Companie set out two 

 Ships, viz. the Lionesse for Clierie Hand, Thomas Edge Com- 

 mander ; and the Amitie, for a Northerne Discoverie, the Mas- 

 ter of which ship was Jonas Poole : who in the moneth of May 

 fell with a Land, and called it Greenland, this is the Land that 

 was discovered by Sir Hugh Willougliby long before [Spetsberg 

 of the Hollanders], which Ship A nitie continued upon the coast 

 of Greenland, discovering the Harbours and killing of Morces 

 [the first killed by the English on Spitsbergen], untill the moneth 

 of August, and so returned for England, having gotten about 

 some twelve Tunnes of goods, and an Unicornes home. 



" In the yeere 1611. the Oompanie set foorth two Ships, the 

 Marie Margaret Admirall, burthen one hundred and sixtie 

 tunnes, Thomas Edge Commander ; and the Elizabeth, burthen 

 sixtie tunnes, Jonas Poole Master, well manned and furnished 

 with all necessarie Provisions, they departed from Blackwall 

 the twentieth of Aprill, and arrived at the Foreland in Green- 

 land in the Latitude of 79. degrees, the twentieth of May fol- 

 lowing, the Admirall had in her six Biskayners expert men for 

 the killing of the Whale : this was the first yeere the Compa- 

 nie set out for the killing of Whales in Greenland, and about 

 the twelfth of June the Biskayners killed a small Whale, which 

 yeelded twelve Tunnes of Oyle, being the first Oyle that ever 

 was made in Greenland. The Companies two Shalops looking 

 about the Harbour for Whales, about the five and twentieth of 

 June rowing into Sir Thomas Smith his Bay, on the East side 

 of the Sound saw on the shoare great store of Sea-horses : after 

 they had found the Morses they presently rowed unto the ship, 

 being in crosseKoad seven leagues off, and acquainted the Cap- 

 tayne what they had found. The Captayne understanding of 

 it, gave order to the Master, Stephen Bennet, that he should take 

 into his Ship fiftie tunnes of emptie Caske, and set sayle with 

 the Ship to goe into Foule Sound. The Captayne went pres- 

 ently away in one Shallop with sixe men unto the Seamorse, 

 and tooke with him Lances, and comming to them they set on 

 them and killed five hundred Morses, and kept one thousand 

 Morses living on shoare, because it was not profitable to kill 

 them all at one time. The next day the Ship being gone unto 

 the place & well mored where the Morse were killed, all the men 

 belonging to the Ship went on shoare, to worke and make Oyle 

 of the Morses ; and when they had wrought two or three dayes, 



