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our comely saylcs to this supposed prosperous gale, and 

 ranging- through the boysterous billowes of the rugged Seas, 

 by the helpe and gracious assistance of Almighty God, wee 

 safely arrived at our desired Port in Greenland, the eleventh 

 of June following. Wherupon, having moored our ships 

 and carryed our caske ashoare, wee, with all expedition, fell 

 to the fitting up of our Shallops with all thingcs necessarie 

 for our intended voyage. Wee were in companie three Ships; 

 all which were then appointed by the order of our Captaine, 

 Captaine William Goodler, to stay at the Foreland, untill 

 the fifteenth of July ; with resolution, that if we could not 

 by that time make a voyage according to our expectation, 

 then to send one ship to the Eastward, unto a fishing place 

 some fourescore leagues from thence ; whither, at the latter 

 end of the yeare, the Whales use more frequently to resort. 

 A second of the three ships was designed for Green-harbour 

 (a place some fifteene leagues distant to the southward), 

 there to trie her skill and fortune, if it wei'e possible there 

 to make a voyage. The third ship (which was the saine 

 wherein wee were) was appointed to stay at the Fore-land, 

 untill the twentieth of Augu.st. But the captaine having 

 made a great voyage at Bell Sownd, disjiatches a Shallop to- 

 wards our ship, with a command unto us to come to him at 

 Bell Sownd aforesaid : his purpose being, both to have us 

 take in some of his Trane-Oyle, as also, by joyning our forces 

 together, to make the fleete so much the stronger for the 

 defence of the merchants goods homeward bound, the Dun- 

 kirkers being very strong and rife at sea in those dayes. 

 Upon the eighth day of August (thereupon), leaving the 

 Foreland, wee directed oure course to the Southward, to- 

 wards Green-harbour, there to take in twenty of our men, 

 which had ou.t of our ships company beene sent into the 

 lesser ship for the furtherance of her voyage. 



But the winde being now contrary, our ship could no way 

 lye our course. The fifteenth day, being calme and clcare. 



