8 - VOYAGE INTO 



the South Bay : we M^ere followed by seven ships, three 

 Hamhurghers and four Hollanders. For here it is just the 

 same as when they will sail into the ice, if more than one is 

 there ; for nobody cares to be the first, because<*they do not 

 know in what condition the harbour or the ice is within. In 

 our voyage thither we saw no ice at all, until we came to 

 Sjntzhergcn, for the wind has bloAvn it all away ; in the night 

 we did cut off the fat of the fish, and filled Avith it sixty-five 

 kardels or vessels. 



That night we sailed with three boats into the English 

 harbour or bay, and saw a whale, and flung into him three 

 harpoons, and threw our lances into him ; the whale ran 

 underneath the small ice, and remained a great while under 

 water before he came up again, and then ran but a very 

 little way before he came up again ; and this he repeated 

 very often, so that we were forced to wait upon him above 

 half an hour before he came from underneath the ice. The 

 harpoons broke out at length, and we lost him. On the ice 

 we saw two great sea-horses or morses^ that were got uijon 

 the sheet of ice, through a hole that was in it, and were 

 asleep ; we cut off their retreat by covering the hole with a 

 piece of ice ; then we awakened them with our lances, and 

 they began to defend themselves for awhile before they were 

 killed. We saw also many white fish. 



On the 22nd, we had very fair Aveathcr, and pretty warm ; 

 we were by Rehenfelt f Deersjield J , where the ice stood firm. 

 We saw six whales, and got one of them that was a male and 

 our third fish ; he was killed at night when the sun stood 

 westward : this fish was killed by one man, who flung the 

 harpoon into him ; and killed him also, while the other boats 

 were busy in pursuing or hunting after another whale. This 

 fish run to the ice, and before he died beat about with his 

 tail ; the ice settled about him, so that the other boats could 

 not come to this boat to assist him, till the ice separated 



^ " Walrosse " — the walrus ( Trichechus ros)iiarus). See Appendix. 



