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went a hunting, and caught the fifth fish, who was a male ; 

 we cut the fat off and flung it into the forecastle. This is 

 done when they are very busy in whale catching, that they 

 may not lose time ; then they cut great pieces off the lohale, 

 that they may have done the sooner, for it doth not harm the 

 fat if it should lie so for several days ; nay, some reckon it 

 to be the better for it, but that cannot be, for the fat runs 

 away from it. 



On the 4th, we had sunshine all day and night. We still 

 were whale hunting, and that night we got the sixth fish, a 

 male also ; he held forty-nine kardels of fat. 



On the ord and 4th day of July, we saw more lohales than 

 we did in all our voyage. 



On the 5th July, in the forenoon, it was bright sunshine 

 and pretty warm ; in the afternoon it was foggy ; at night 

 sunshine again, which lasted all the night. We hunted all 

 that day long, and in the morning we struck a whale before 

 the Wcigatt ; this fish run round about under the water, 

 and so fastened the line whereon our harpoon was about a 

 rock, so that the harpoon lost its hold, and that fish got 

 away. This lohale did blow the water so fiercely, that one 

 might hear it at a league's distance. 



The same day, about noon, the wind south and svmshine, 

 we got the seventh fish, which was a female, and had forty- 

 five kardels of fat ; this we cut also into the hold, and so we 

 sailed from IVeigatt, a little toward the west, before the 

 Muscle-harhotir , where we dropt our anchor ; we were em- 

 ployed in cutting the great pieces of fat into lesser pieces, to 

 fill our kardels with them ; in the mean while the wind 

 turned to the north-west and west, and the single anchor 

 was dragged by the ship, so we dropped another, and would 

 have weighed up the former, but our cable broke, the anchor 

 being fastened to a rock. 



On the 6th, we had the same weather, and warm sunshine 

 all night. Hard by us rode a Hollander, and the ship's crew 



