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The dead lohales, when the fat is cut off of them, .they let 

 float, and are the food of birds of prey when they are hun- 

 gry ; but they had rather have dead whales that have still 

 their fat left on them. The white bear is generally not far 

 oif, whether there be any fat left on them or no, and look 

 like dogs that only feed on carrion ; and at that time their 

 white furr is turned into a yellow colour, and at the same 

 time they shed their haii-, and their skins are worth very 

 little. Where a dead lohale is near we see it by the birds, 

 whereof are many, and also the white bears discover it, 

 chiefly in the spring, when but a few whales are caught, for 

 then they are greedy of their prey ; afterwards, when many 

 whales float on the sea, they have their bellies full, and we 

 do not find so many by a inhale, because they are dispersed. 



CHAP. X. 



Of the Trijing o\it of the Train-Oyl from the Fat. 



Formerly the Dutch did try out their train-oyl in Spitz- 

 hcrgen at Smerenherg , and about the Cookery of Harlimjcn, 

 where still, for a remembrance, all sorts of tools belonging 

 thereto are to be seen, whereof I have made mention before. 

 The FrencJi-mcn try up their train-oyl in their ships, and by 

 that means many ships arc burnt at Sjjf'fzhcrgcfi : and this was 

 the occasion of the burning of two ships in my time. 



They try out their train-oyl at Spiizbergen that they may 

 load the more fat in their ships ; and they believe it to be 

 very profitable, for they go their voyage upon part, that is to 

 say, they receive more or less according to what they catch ; 

 but I do not account it -wisdom to fill up the room of the ship 

 with wood where they might stow vessels. But our country- 



