96 A HISTORY OF THE WHALE FISHERIES 



command of Benjamin Joseph and Thomas Edge. 

 Leaving Queenborough on the i3th May, they 

 reached Greenland in eighteen days. On the 3ist 

 they saw a ship which proved to be a ship of Saint 

 John de Luz " which had leave of the Companie 

 to fish," and from whom they learnt that there were 

 eight Spaniards on the coast. They also saw 

 another ship, supposed to be a Frenchman, with 

 Allan Sallas as pilot. On the 2nd June they 

 boarded a small pink and ordered the master and 

 pilot thereof aboard the English General's ship. 



The master's name was Clais Martin of Home, 

 his ship being for Dunkirk, and with him was 

 another ship, whose master was Fopp, also of Dun- 

 kirk. According to Edge there were fifteen sail of 

 large ships besides four English interlopers 

 engaged in the whaling this year. 



In addition to those mentioned above Baffin 

 records meeting four foreigners on the 6th June at 

 Poopy Bay, of whom two were Hollanders from 

 Amsterdam with a commission granted by the Grave 

 Maurice to fish in that country; one a Rocheller and 

 the fourth a vessel from Bordeaux. When they saw 

 our Kings Majestie's Commission they told our 

 General that they would depart this coast. The 

 English were at this time in great strength. The 

 Jacques of Bordeaux agreed with the English that if 

 he were permitted to fish he would hand over half 

 the whales he killed. The Rocheller and the small 

 ship from Biscay agreed (8th June) to leave the 

 coast. On the Qth the English ordered the two 



