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again that they might row, when they tied one boat behind 

 the other, and so towed the lohale to the great ship, where 

 they cut him up into the vessels, and filled with him forty- 

 five barrels. This night the sun shined very brightly. 



On the 29th, we had fair weather, sunshine, and calm. On 

 the same day we sailed before the wide harbour or bay, where 

 wc found a great quantity of the fat of a xoliale, three vessels 

 full, together with the image of St. Nicholas, which stood 

 behind a ship that was lost driving in the sea : there Avas 

 also here and there still much ice. 



On the 1st July, about noon, two ivhales came near to our 

 ship ; we saw that they had a mind to couple together ; we 

 set our boat for them, and the harpoonier hit the female, 

 which when the other found, he did not stay at all, but made 

 away. The female run all along above the water, straight 

 forward, beating about with her tail and fins, so that we 

 durst not come near to lance her ; yet one of our harpooniers 

 was so foolhardy to venture too near to the fish, which 

 saluted him with a stroke of her tail over his back so vehe- 

 mently, that he had much ado to recover his breath again. 

 Those in the other boat, to show their valour also, has- 

 tened to the fish, which overturned their boat, so that the 

 harpoonier was forced to dive for it, and hide his head 

 underneath the water ; the rest did the same ; they thought 

 it very long before they came out, for it was cold, so that 

 they came quaking to the ship again. In the same morning 

 a tchale appeared near our ship, before the wide harbour : 

 we put out four boats from our ship after him, but two Hol- 

 land ships were about half a league from us ; one of them 

 sent a boat towards us ; we used great diligence and care to 

 take him, but the fish came np just before the Dutchman'' s 

 boat, and was struck by him -with the harpoon. Thus he 

 took the bread out of our mouths. 



On the 2nd of July we had sunshine all day and night 

 long, and it M'as pretty warm withall ; about midnight M'e 



