72 A HISTORY OF THE WHALE FISHERIES 



Roland Heyward and Sir Lionel Duckett. (See 

 Appendix I., p. 303). 



In Hakluyt's "Voyages" (1575) there is a 

 request of an honest merchant to a friend of his to 

 be advised and directed on the course of killing the 

 whale. A number of questions relative to whaling 

 are set forth and duly answered. 



" The whaler should be of two hundred tons, with 

 a crew of fifty-five men, and should set out in April 

 for Wardhouse and be furnished with four kintals 

 and a half of bread for every man, with two hundred 

 and fifty hogshead to put the bread in. The 

 further specification includes : One hundred and 

 fifty hogsheads of cidar, six kintals of oile, eight 

 kintals of bacon, six hogsheds of beefe, ten quarters 

 of salt, a hundred and fifty pounds of candles, 

 eight quarters of beans and pease, saltfish and 

 herring a quantity convenient, four tunnes of 

 wines, half a quarter of mustard seed and a querne, 

 a grindstone, eight hundred empty shaken hogs- 

 heds, three hundred and fifty bundles of hoops, and 

 six quintalines, eight hundred pairs of heds for the 

 hogsheds, ten estachas called roxes for harping 

 irons, ten pieces of arporieras, three pieces of 

 baibens for the javelins small, two tackles to turn the 

 whales, a halser of twenty-seven fadom long to turne 

 ye whales, fifteen great javelins, eighteen small 

 javelins, fifty harping irons, six machicos to cut the 

 whale withall, two doozen of machetos to minch the 

 whale, two great hookes to turne the whale, three 

 pair of can hookes, six hookes for staves, three 



