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loss at over sixty-six thousand pounds besides the 

 spoiling of the ships and the loss of the men. 



On their return the English whalers made formal 

 complaint, and the proceedings at the Foreland, Bell 

 Sound and Horn Sound were the subject of separate 

 affidavits. 1 



The statement of events at the Foreland is sworn 

 to by William Heley (London), aged twenty-four 

 years or thereabouts, Robert Salmon of Deptford, 

 Stephen Smith of Gravesend and John Headland 

 of London. At the Foreland it is evident there 

 was considerable wrangling between William Heley, 

 who was the chief representative of the English, 

 and Hubreght Cornelisson, the Admiral of the 

 Flemings. 



Heley, though with a numerically inferior force, 

 and with unarmed ships, seems to have attempted to 

 prevent the Dutch from fishing, although the latter 

 were present in overwhelmingly greater force. 

 Heley learnt that this year the Dutch sent nineteen 

 ships to Jan Mayen Island (Hudson's Touches) and 

 that the twenty-three for Greenland (Spitsbergen) 

 were to be distributed as follows: To Horn Sound, 

 five; Bell Sound, seven; Green Harbour, three; 

 the Foreland, five; and Fairhaven, three. There 

 was a man-of-war to ride close to the English Vice- 

 Admiral's side, and if she stirred, then to go with 

 her. It appeared that the Dutch had information of 



* State Papers, Domestic, James I., Sept., 1618, Vol. xcix., 

 No. 40. Ibid., July-Aug., 1618, Vol. xcviii., Docket 44. (Re- 

 printed in " Early Dutch and English Voyages to Spitsbergen," 

 Hakluyt Society, 1904.) 



