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Margaret, immediately lightened his ship, putting 

 " neere one hundred morse hides on land, and some 

 emptie caske, and haled up a shalop. After haul- 

 ing up the remaining sloops of the Mary Margaret 

 at midnight I set sayle for Greenland, carrying with 

 mee two Biscaine shallops, determining there to try 

 the blubber of those morses we had killed, and bring 

 it to oyle, and to bring all the oyle, teeth and finnes 

 which they had gotten in that country." 



Ple left Cherry Island in the Elizabeth on the 

 ist August, and arrived at Foule Sound in 

 " Greenland " on the 14$!, where he found the Hull 

 ship, the Hopewell, busily engaged in salvage work. 

 As soon as the Elizabeth was moored Poole set to 

 work to make the best of things. He determined to 

 get out the blubber and send it ashore to be made 

 into oil, and also to take home the oil and whale-fins 

 as being the more valuable cargo, leaving the morse- 

 hides and blubber to the next year. The accounts 

 given by Edge and Poole of this same incident differ 

 in details, though there is an agreement in the main. 

 For instance, Edge gives the date of arrival of the 

 Elizabeth at Foule Sound as the I4th August, 

 Poole gives the date as the 3rd. 1 At any rate, Poole 

 lightened his ship too much during these operations, 

 so that " the ship began to held, and with all a great 

 many men went to leeward, there being at that time 

 above forty on board." Poole says he had at this 

 time on board " about nine and twentie tunne weight, 



1 But they may have estimated the date, one by the old, the 

 other by the new method. 



