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In the account of the voyage of the Mangold 

 of M. Hill of Redrife unto Cape Briton and beyond 

 to the latitude of 44 degrees and a half ; in 1593, 

 written by Richard Fisher, Master Hilles man of 

 Redrife, there is reference to whales. 



" In our course to the West of Cape Briton we 

 saw exceeding great store of scales, and abundance 

 of porpoises, whereof we killed eleven. We saw 

 whales also of all sortes as well small as great ; and 

 here our men took many herded coddes." 



In " a briefe and summary discourse upon the 

 intended voyage to the hithermost parts of 

 America; written by Captaine Carlile in April, 

 1583," for the information of the merchants of ihe 

 Muscovy Company and others, there is reference to 

 the prospect of good fishing for whales in northern 

 regions. 1 



One of the earliest voyages by an English ship 

 to the whale fisheries was made by the Grace of 

 Bristol, 2 a barque of thirty-five tons, owned by 

 M. Rice Jones, whereof Silvester Wyet, Shipmaster 

 of Bristol, was master. This voyage was up 

 into the Bay of St Lawrence, to the north- 

 west of Newfoundland as far as the Island 

 of Assumption, for the barbs or fins of whales 

 and train oil. The Grace, with a crew of twelve 

 men, left Bristol on the 4th April, 1594. In St 

 George's Bay (north side of Nova Scotia) they 

 found the wrecks of two large Biscayan ships which 



1 Hakluyt's, " Voyages," Dent's Everyman Edition, Vol. vi., 

 p. 80. 

 Ibid., p. 98. 



